A 71-year-old St Catherine woman is now left to go through the trauma of being raped not just once, but twice in three months.

The Bog Walk police are now working relentlessly as they try to ascertain the identity of a man who reportedly broke into the elderly woman's home before raping her last week.

According to reports, the elderly woman who lives alone was at her home near Kent Village in the parish when she was attacked.

The police say a man used a crowbar to break off a door on the woman's house and gained entry.

He then forcefully had sex with the woman several times before leaving, after which she made a report to the police who immediately launched an investigation.

Investigators are yet to link a suspect to the incident but are still trying.

Police sources informed THE STAR that the woman was also raped in August of this year.

Following intense investigations into that incident her alleged attacker was taken into custody where he remains while awaiting trial.

THE STAR heard that not a single relative of the woman can be located.

Meanwhile, residents of the community are saddened by the incident.

"Lawd it look like dem a tek a set pon di ole woman. A di second time dem rape her since year," Juliet, a resident said.