Roblox: Hampshire pervert Carlo Tritta groomed girl on game before turning up at her house
A sexual predator from Hampshire who groomed a 14-year-old girl he met through the online gaming platform Roblox has been detained for 28 months.
Carlo Tritta, 19, went on to engage in “highly sexualised” conversations with his victim and shared intimate images and videos.
Tritta initially made contact with the girl on Roblox in 2024 before he moved their online conversations to Discord, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Police were alerted last August when the complainant’s mother discovered the messages and images.
Tritta was arrested and interviewed but breached his bail conditions when he travelled to the girl’s home in Manchester in a bid to get her to drop the case.
On Thursday, prosecutor Rachel Yarwood told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that Tritta walked in through the back door of the property and confronted the complainant, despite her asking him to leave.
She said: “He also sent her letters, attempted to contact her by phone and made attempts to frustrate the criminal investigation.”
Tritta went on to admit to perverting the course of justice and was sentenced last December to a 12-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years.
However, just three days later he returned to the complainant’s home and sought to confront her as he entered the property and damaged a video camera. Tritta was arrested again.
He pleaded guilty to making indecent images, including 25 in the most serious classification of Category A, sexual communication with a child and causing a child to watch a sexual act, all committed between January and August 2025. He also admitted witness intimidation and criminal damage.
In a victim impact statement, the girl said she “felt trapped and upset” and was “scared of going downstairs at night” because she thought the defendant would be there.
The victim’s mother told the court they were “constantly on edge” at their home, which “no longer feels like a safe space”, and had considered moving.
Edward Steele, defending, made what he termed a “mercy submission” to the court to not activate Tritta’s earlier suspended sentence.
He said Tritta, of West Drive, Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh, was “essentially fixated” with his victim “partly as a function of his neurodiverse condition”.
The court heard the defendant has Asperger syndrome together with a mixed anxiety and depressive disorder that “may have compromised his understanding of what he was doing”.
Mr Steele said: “He is now coming to terms with the seriousness of the offences he committed, which is borne out by a letter of apology and his remorse.”
However, Recorder Ciaran Rankin ruled Tritta’s pattern of behaviour over a period of time must be reflected by an immediate custodial term.
He also noted the author of a pre-sentence report regarded Tritta as a high risk of causing harm to children and that the witness intimidation offences were committed just days after a court order had been imposed.
Following sentencing, Karina Lyon, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Not only is Tritta a sexual predator but he has also exhibited deeply troubling behaviour by attending the girl’s address in breach of his bail and a court order, damaging property and trying to interfere with witnesses.
“The victim and her family were left feeling unsafe in their own home. I hope today’s outcome sends a clear message that the Crown Prosecution Service is determined to bring those who exploit children to justice.”