Court documents are shedding light on the alleged abduction of a 10-year-old girl from California’s Central Valley by a 27-year-old man whom she met through the popular gaming portal, Roblox.
When the defendant, Matthew Naval, picked her up in Taft, California, the girl thought they’d go to a park near her home to hang out, she told investigators. But as they talked and drove, they decided to go to another park, one a little farther away.
She got distracted during the drive, the girl told investigators. It wasn’t until three hours later that she realized she was nowhere near her home.
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“Once I realized we were far away from my house, I did want to go home, but I did not actually ask him to take me home because I did not know how to ask that,” the girl told Kern County sheriff’s investigators, according to newly-released court documents. “I was thinking about how to ask him, though,” she said…