KIHEI, Maui — Police were looking yesterday for a man who raped an 83-year-old woman after entering her North Kihei home through an unlocked window Wednesday afternoon.

The assault occurred less than three months after two other sexual attacks on elderly women in Kahului, and investigators have not ruled out a connection, said Lt. Glenn Cuomo of the Maui Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division.

At about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, a man described as slim and 6 feet tall, wearing black pants and a gray tank top, entered the woman's Kenolio Road home and raped her, then took some cash before fleeing, police said. The attack is being investigated as a first-degree sexual assault and first-degree robbery.

Cuomo said no new developments have emerged in the earlier cases, which were scary enough to prompt residents of a Kahului senior residential community to hold a "Silence Violence" rally.

The first Kahului attack occurred at 3 a.m. May 30 when an 87-year-old woman was raped in the bedroom of her home. The intruder broke a window to enter the house and stole a purse.

On June 14, a 78-year-old resident of the Hale Mahaolu senior residential community was walking on Wakea Avenue around 5:30 a.m. when she was forced into bushes and assaulted.

Anyone with information in the Kihei case is asked to call Maui police at (808) 244-6400. Anyone who wants to remain anonymous should call Maui CrimeStoppers at (808) 242-6966.

Reach Timothy Hurley at thurley@honoluluadvertiser.com.