DIGOS CITY, Philippines ? Six women, four of them police officers, filed on Tuesday sexual abuse complaints against former Davao del Sur police director Cesario Darantinao.

Darantinao said the charges were trumped up and pushed by some police officers who were dissatisfied with his leadership.

Darantinao, who was replaced last week, begged off from further commenting.

He said he has already consulted a lawyer to study the complaints filed by the six women.

Darantinao, who is now reporting to the Southern Mindanao police office?s holding unit in Davao City, told Inquirer he took a leave of absence.

Beer drinker

In her complaint, a 30-year-old policewoman said she was molested by Darantinao in his office on April 26, 2008.

The policewoman said that while inside the office, Darantinao forced her to drink beer even if she was on duty.

?Since he was my superior ... I just went along,? she said.

She said while they were sitting, Darantinao made the advances.

?He placed his left hand on my lap and ... slowly and maliciously touched my hand and inserted his fingers in between my fingers, pressing, mashing, and squeezing it constantly,? she said.

The policewoman said she tried to subtly remove her hands.

Then Darantinao asked her to get a glass of water. When she returned, Darantinao allegedly made the advances again and asked her to sleep with him.

?He dragged his chair near me and embraced me and urged me to sleep with him in his room,? she said.

After a few weeks, the policewoman said Darantinao again summoned her to his quarters.

While there, she said Darantinao gave her P500 supposedly to buy milk for her child.

?I rejected it... I was so aggrieved and so unhappy,? she said.

Another complainant, also a 30-year-old policewoman, said in October 2008, Darantinao asked her to go out with him.

She said she tried to politely decline the offer by saying she could not go because she was in uniform.

But Darantinao, she said, was insistent and offered his wife?s clothes.

?With due respect to him as my highest officer, I removed my uniform and retained the white plain inner shirt,? the complainant said.

?But he offered me the short pants of his wife and instructed me to change clothes at the comfort room inside his bedroom,? she said.

The victim said while changing clothes, Darantinao came in and suddenly pulled down the short pants she was wearing, revealing her underwear.

?I tried to stop him but he hugged me tight, with his face on my neck ... I covered my upper private parts with my hands ... he asked me if I knew how to give a massage,? she said.

Tearful wife

Another victim, the 35-year-old-wife of a policeman, said in June 2008 she went to see Darantinao to ask him about the possibility of her husband?s transfer.

The woman said Darantinao also molested her inside his office and threatened to have her husband relieved if she refused the advances.

?I went home crying,? she said.

Another complainant said she was applying to become a policewoman in October 2008 when Darantinao also molested her.

Darantinao said he was puzzled by the delay in the filing of the complaints since the cases happened in 2008.

In their affidavits, however, the women said they were afraid to come out in the open because Darantinao was the most powerful police officer of the province at that time.

They said they only gathered the courage when Darantinao was finally removed from his post.