Predator bombarded girl, 14, with takeways and Moonpig threats after meeting her on Roblox
A man who broke through the back door of a teenage girl’s home after meeting her on Roblox has been jailed.
Carlo Tritta, 19, began speaking to the girl through the popular world-building game when she was just 14-years-old.
Tritta led her to believe they were in a relationship, sending her gifts and takeaways, and love-bombing for more than a year with calls and texts.
When her mother found out, she contacted police and Tritta was arrested in August 2025.
He was subsequently bailed with strict conditions not to contact the girl or her mother while police seized his phone and began an investigation.
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But obsessive Tritta continued to contact the girl’s friends through social media, called and texted the girl multiple times and even sent her two cards via Moonpig.com trying to encourage her to drop the case.
This behaviour escalated when Tritta reported the girl’s mother to child services, and contacted police in an attempt to get the investigating officer removed from the case.
Soon after, Tritta, of West Drive in Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, drove hundreds of miles to the girl’s home address in Manchester and snuck in through the back door.
When the girl found him, she ordered him to leave but he came back 10 minutes later, demanding her new phone number.
The girl then agreed to go to a local pub with Tritta just to get him away from the house.
The following morning, the girl’s mum was putting the bins out when she caught sight of Tritta ducking behind a garage. She confronted him, causing him to flee before police were called.
Tritta was arrested and charged with perverting the course of justice, which he admitted in court and he was handed a 12 month suspended sentence on 11 December.
But three days later, he travelled to Manchester again and entered the girl’s home address where he confronted the girl and her mother, before damaging a CCTV camera.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of intimidating a witness and criminal damage.
Based on the content police discovered on his phone, which had been seized previously, he was also charged with three counts of making indecent images of a child, engaging in sexual communications with a child, and causing a child aged 13-15 to watch/look at a sexual image.
He was jailed for 28 months.
The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had discovered Tritta’s contact with her daughter after the child became depressed, stopped sleeping well and had suicidal thoughts.
The mother said: ‘I feel like my daughter has been in some kind of abusive, controlling, coercive relationship with somebody who’s a lot older.’
She added: ‘I don’t feel safe in my own house, I’ve got cameras up, I’ve got to think about safeguarding, I’ve had to change times of school pickup, when I drop off, I just get jumpy in my own house.’
Calling for tighter restrictions for the users of apps aimed at children, she also advised parents to take care of what their children are doing on their phones.
She said of Roblox: ‘To me, I just thought it’s a child’s game.
‘I did not think for one minute that these older people, paedophiles, are essentially grooming on these games and contacting these children.
‘I try to tell as many people as possible. Watch what your children are playing; they can be dangerous.
‘I thought, my girl, she gets high grades in school, she can be a bit of a moody teenager but she doesn’t go out.
‘I just thought how lucky am I that I’ve got my daughter at home with me and she’s safe, but I’m in my bedroom and she’s in the other and all this is happening to her.’
DC Jodi Bartlett, who investigated the case, said: ‘Tritta’s behaviour lays bare the terrifying realities of how criminals use the online world to target and harm vulnerable people. Do you truly know who you, or your child, is speaking to online?
‘The victim in this case was just 14-years-old. She and her mother were subjected to a campaign of fear and abuse at the hands of obsessive and predatory Tritta.
‘Gaming platforms should be spaces where people, especially children, are safe. The anonymity of the internet allows dangerous individuals like Tritta to prey on others for their own twisted gain, and the lengths that Tritta went to in order to maintain his abuse of this young girl is shocking.
‘The girl and her mother are both to be commended for their bravery which has now resulted in Tritta being put in prison.’
A Roblox spokesperson said the company were using AI to detect grooming and stop users moving chats off platfotm.
They said: ‘Criminal behaviour has no place on Roblox. Since January, Roblox has required all users to go through age checks in order to communicate on our platform, with the system designed to limit communications to people of similar ages and those they already know.
‘While no system is perfect, we continue to evolve and strengthen our protections every day.’
A Moonpig spokesperson added they take the threats posted to an underage girl to drop a criminal case ‘very seriously’.
They added: ‘We send tens of thousands of cards across the country every day. Our terms and conditions clearly set out the content standards that customers are required to follow, and it is regrettable when those standards are breached.’