How 'sexual predator' groomed girl, 14, he met on Roblox

Nineteen-year-old Carlo Tritta was at work when police arrived to take him into custody for questioning. Eleven months earlier, he had started talking to a 14-year-old girl from Greater Manchester on the online gaming platform Roblox. "He was chatting about games and generally just chat about the game that they were playing," said Det Supt Rod Kenny, from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police. "What then happened is that he sought to move her off that gaming platform onto a private message platform and the relationship moved on from there. "From that point onwards they then entered into what in her eyes was a loving relationship. "What was clear though is that there was a real power balance in terms of his age but also his intentions for this child." The messages were described in court as "highly sexualised" and Tritta repeatedly messaged the teenager, encouraging her to send him sexually explicit images of herself. "What was clear though is that his messaging was really very persistent," said Det Supt Kenny. "There was focused messaging on securing indecent images of her and he was incredibly persistent in relation to that." He led his victim to believe they were in a relationship b