Influencer reveals the terrifying way a stranger tried to ‘groom’ her child through a very popular kids game

A South Australian influencer was left stunned to discover a stranger was trying to ‘groom’ her 10-year-old daughter Valentina online.

Hayley Berlingeri, 35, confiscated her child’s iPad for three months when she discovered the teen had been talking to someone in the online game Roblox.

Hayley shared the shocking details on Instagram, warning her followers that her daughter discovered how to turn on the disabled chat feature, leaving her vulnerable to being contacted by strangers online.

“Girls, just a little reminder to stay vigilant and know what your kids are doing online!” Hayley began her lengthy message to fans.

“I’ve been taking Vali’s iPad with me for the past three months because I found her messaging with a random person on Roblox after she figured out how to enable the chat feature I disabled when she first got the game. It turned out to be a trimmer!’

Hayley said she went through all the messages between Valentina and this stranger and discovered that they had offered to give her new “pets” in the game and show her new rooms.

‘This is how it starts. It’s like taking care of playgrounds where the kidnapper offers the child a lollipop,” Hayley said before sharing the “random person’s” online username.

Hayley went on to say that she regularly checked Valentina’s iPad for suspicious activity, but “went to sleep” because she’s “such a good girl.”

“So grateful that I found out about all this before anything happened,” she added.

“And I’m so grateful for the lesson I learned not to blindly trust my children, even though they are so good and sweet and kind. At the end of the day they are still children.’

Valentina has since gotten her iPad back ‘with all chat functions turned off again’ and Hayley said she will ‘keep my eyes peeled’ for any more inappropriate behavior her eldest encounters online.

Roblox is an online gaming platform that allows users to interact and “create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine.”

This isn’t the first time Hayley’s children have been exposed to shocking online interactions.

Moments after recounting what happened to Valentina, the mother of four – who shares children Valentina, Rome, eight, Sonny, six, and Giulietta, two, with her husband of 14 years Paolo – said she stole the iPad from had to confiscate her. also two sons.

Hayley confiscated her child’s iPad for three months when she discovered the teen had been talking to someone in the online game Roblox

Hayley shared the shocking details on Instagram, warning her followers that her daughter discovered how to enable the disabled chat feature, leaving her vulnerable to contact by strangers online

This isn’t the first time Hayley’s children have been exposed to shocking online interactions. Moments after telling what happened to Valentina, the mother of four said she also had to confiscate her two sons’ iPad

Hayley shares children Valentina, Rome, eight, Sonny, six, and Giulietta, two, with her husband of 14 years Paolo. All depicted

“We also banned our boys from their iPads for three months because an older child we trusted showed them inappropriate things online and then they looked them up again and didn’t tell us about it,” Hayley said.

‘It can happen so easily and even the ‘best’ children can hide things from their parents, no matter how well educated they are or how many conversations have been had on the subject.

“This whole online world is scary and we just have to be on top of it, which is very difficult when time is so short these days.”

Hayley said her family of six have had ‘a real shake-up’ in recent months when it comes to online activity ‘as a few things have happened that we never thought would happen’.

The mummy blogger was shocked as she said she always made sure to have ‘very direct conversations’ with her children about the dangers being online can bring.

She added that her children’s school also has “really great online safety programs,” which teach students to be careful when navigating online spaces.

“Despite all that, these things still happened and our children still didn’t come to us,” she said.

“It was a very welcome wake-up call to be even more vigilant in monitoring what they do online, and not to blindly trust them, because at the end of the day, we just want to keep our children safe and happy, right?”

Hayley is an Adelaide-based influencer who has 126,000 followers on her public Instagram account, where she regularly shares photos of her four children and the lavish holidays she takes them on.