In a Melbourne court on Wednesday, a 68-year-old Victoria Police officer was refused bail after allegedly abusing a toddler on multiple occasions, amassing thousands of files depicting child exploitation, and then deliberately circumventing the very bail conditions a court had trusted him to honour. Riccardo Rossi's case sits at a painful intersection of institutional trust and its betrayal — a man whose career was built on the authority of protection standing accused of the gravest violations against the most vulnerable. The magistrate's refusal to release him reflects a court's reckoning wit
Victoria Police officer accused of child abuse breaches bail with secret laptop
A two-year-old child was sexually abused on multiple occasions in November 2024 and February 2025.