A number of women at Akyem Oda in the Eastern region have fingered a man whom they claim has been sexually assaulting them in the dead of night when they are asleep. On Thursday, three of the women, who volunteered to speak to journalists, accused the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service at Oda in the Birim Central municipality of dragging its feet in the case in which the academic supervisor of a popular preparatory school in the town was alleged to be the culprit. According to them, they had been shuttling between their homes and the DOVVSU office after the complaint was formally made to the police on the incidents about two weeks ago. The alleged victims are 35-year-old trader, Gifty; 28-year-old hairdresser, Vida and 26-year-old petty trader, Delise, who is about seven months pregnant. Gifty and Vida said they reported the case to Oda DOVVSU on Tuesday, January 19 and since then had not received any positive response on the case even though they had been going to see the officer in charge on a regular basis. Gifty, who had become a regular victim of Michael Attafuah, the alleged serial rapist, told DAILY GUIDE that on January 14, while she was sleeping on a mat in her room, the suspect sneaked in, using matches to burn the net on the trap door and opening it from behind. “Because the main door to the room was not locked as a result of the heat, he easily got into the room and lay on me, fondled my breast and inserted his fingers into my vagina,” she said, adding that he tried to rape her but she resisted his attempt. She said: “I thought it was my husband trying to have sex with me but when I realized that he was fast asleep on the bed with our seven-year-old son, I shouted ‘thief, thief’ which attracted the attention of my husband and other tenants in the house.” She disclosed that before this encounter, two ladies had also reported similar attempts to rape them by an unknown person. Confirming Gifty’s narration, her husband, George Wadie, told Daily Guide that because of what happened, he decided to keep watch to find out if the suspect would come again. According to him, on Sunday January 17, around 2.00am while he was keeping watch and his wife fast asleep, the suspect came to their place using the same modus operandi to enter the room in an attempt to take advantage of his wife. He said when he and his wife raised an alarm, the suspect jumped out of the room and he was given a hot chase until he was eventually arrested some distance away. George Wadie narrated that the suspect resisted arrest and fought hard to free himself. “He used a club and a block to hit me but I was determined to arrest him so I also fought back, punching his mouth in the process and after I raised an alarm, some people came to help me to send him to the police station”. The husband explained that on the way to the police station, which was at the other end of the town, somebody informed the suspect's mother who was the owner of a school, that her son had been arrested and was being sent to the police station. According to him, the mother came in her car and pleaded with them to release the suspect so that the matter could be settled at home; but when they did not agree, she went ahead of them to the police station to report that her son was being attacked by a mob. “When she came with the police in her car, we initially did not agree to release him and wanted to send him directly to the police station but the police convinced us and we went together,” he said, adding that when they got to the police station, the police rather arrested the six others and charged them for assault. In the case of the second complainant, Vida, she said she was sleeping around 1.00am on January 10, 2010 when the suspect sneaked into her room to 'prey' on her. “I had then wrapped myself with my bed-sheet without anything else on and then I felt someone lying on me and fondling my private parts; I woke up to see the suspect half naked, attempting to penetrate me with his sexual organ.” Vida said she raised an alarm but the suspect managed to escape. The third victim, Afuaa, who was pregnant, told DAILY GUIDE that she was lying on the floor of her room, in the middle of the night, when she woke up to see the suspect clutching a flash-light and examining her private parts with it; and when she raised an alarm, he took off. The suspect lived in the same neighbourhood with the victims where the school is also located, raising fears that he might subject some of the pupils to the same ordeal. Source: Daily Guide/Ghana