He told police that a 13-year-old boy he’d met on Roblox had shared his password so Penczak could “put gift cards on to his Roblox account,” according to a transcript of his taped confession.

Do you let your kids play Roblox? Many, many parents do. The gaming platform has a huge audience — some 85 million people visit it daily — and about 40% of them are under the age of 13. But ...

Roblox, he said, provided him opportunities he might have otherwise never have had. Before he started making a living on the platform, he’d never left Canada.