According to the police authorities of Peru, to correctly complete the Roblox challenge, the young man had to kidnap a girl, attack a police officer or commit a robbery.
The perpetrator of the kidnapping of a girl in Cusco, Peru, is 18 years old. The young man claims that he carried out this act to fulfill a Roblox challenge.
According to information from the National Police of Peru (PNP), the kidnapping occurred on Choquechaca Street, located a few blocks from the Plaza Mayor of Cusco.
The police added that the kidnapping of the 7-year-old schoolgirl was the result of a challenge agreed upon by the detainee and two other friends. With whom the tasks were divided to help meet the challenge.
“The subject says that through a game that we see on social networks, which is Roblox, they take on challenges. That is to say, ‘if you want some credits to be able to obtain some purchases, I am going to give you a challenge,’ Peruvian police major Edward Salazar told our partner media RPP.
“Three friends had taken on the challenge. One of them, attacking a police officer; another, commit a robbery and the third, kidnap a minor,” he added.
A security camera located on Choquechaca Street confirmed the kidnapping. In the video, the minor is seen walking in her school uniform, carrying a backpack on her back, and in front of her was the detainee, who obstructed her path, picked her up, and entered her house, which was located about two meters away. meters.
Now the young man is at the disposal of the Cusco Criminal Investigation Division waiting to undergo a psychological evaluation, police sources indicated.
The head of criminal investigation of the Police indicated that the minor passed the medical examiner’s examination that indicated negative for sexual rape. In addition, the minor was kidnapped for 10 minutes and then released.
Is this the first time it happens?
It is not the first time that atrocious acts have been seen due to challenges delivered through the web.
In 2019, a challenge called the “blue whale game” went viral where an administrator gave different challenges to the players, ranging from cutting themselves, standing on the edge of a bridge, reaching the end, which consisted of taking their own life.
Its dissemination began through the Internet in May 2016 and originated on the Russian social network Vkontakte.
The game created by a 21-year-old Russian at the time named Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student expelled from his university. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to “cleanse society”, pushing those he considered “useless people in life” to suicide.
The Blue Whale started in 2013 with another name, “F57”, one of the names of the so-called “group of death” on VKontakte. Although in the initial cases of suicides reported in Russia, a direct connection to the game could not be established.
What does it consist of? It is a game in which the victims are children and adolescents, who are ‘invited’ to pass one test per day for fifty days. The term “blue whale” refers to the phenomenon of strandings in cetaceans, which is compared to suicide. The last challenge they have to overcome.
To complete the tasks (50 in total) there are so-called ‘online tutors’ who use fake profiles on Facebook and distribute messages with challenges through this social network or through WhatsApp.
