JEDDAH: A suspected serial rapist who terrified the city before being detained by authorities has been hit with two more reports from rape victims, taking the number of victims since 2007 to 15. Investigators have summoned the other 13 victims to identify the suspect, who worked as a schoolteacher. The last two victims identified him from a police lineup. The Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution is filing a sheet of charges against the alleged rapist after DNA tests showed he committed the assaults. The last victim, who was raped some two weeks ago, provided investigators with leads that quickly resulted in the arrest of the 42-year-old married Saudi man with five children, police said. The victim told the authorities that she was taken to Ajawid District, southeast of Jeddah, and said the man's house was close to a mosque; she heard the call of dawn prayer as she was attacked, police added. She also identified other buildings close to the house, which led authorities to limit the scope of their hunt for the perpetrator, according to authorities. Police made sketches of the alleged rapist based on descriptions provided by victims and pictures taken from surveillance camera at malls, wedding halls and hospitals where the suspected rapist took the children in his SUV after giving them sweets, officials said. Police sources said that the victim who provided the information described the apartment annexed to the house, where she was raped, as containing children's toys, a flat-screen TV, and a red shisha water pipe. When secret police started watching the house, they asked the man's children if their father still smoked shisha; they answered ‘Yes,' the sources said. The 13 victims were able to identify the man's car he used to take them to his house, sources said. They said they were forced to sit in the back seat and keep looking at the floor, to prevent them from identifying the area where they were taken. The last victim, however, was able to get glimpses of the area, which helped police find the location, sources said.
