The maid who accused former International Monetary Fund Chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a New York City hotel room has ended her
months-long silence and gone public.Nafissatou Diallo with theworld
cup football shirts , whose credibility has
been questioned by Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers and prosecutors, spoke to Newsweek
magazine for an article posted on its website Sunday. She also conducted an
interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News, which is set to air Monday on “Good
Morning America.”CNN previously has not identified Diallo, given the network’s
policy against naming sexual assault victims. But it is now naming her, in
light of her decision to make her case to the media.On May 14, Diallo accused
Strauss-Kahn with the EPL Football shirts —
who besides being a global economic leader had been mentioned as a leading
contender for the French presidency — of assaulting her at Manhattan’s Sofitel
Hotel, where she was an employee. He was charged in New York with sexual abuse
and attempted rape, pleading not guilty on all counts.In an interview conducted
at her lawyer’s office in New York City, Diallo told Newsweek that Strauss-Kahn
was naked when he slammed the door shut to his luxury hotel room, forced
himself upon her and tried to make her perform oral sex on him.”Because of him
they call me a prostitute,” Diallo said, referring to published reports she had
sex for money. “I want him to go to jail. I want him to know there are some
places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money.”
The 32-year-old native of Guinea
told the magazine she was “nervous” and “scared” when she eventually ran from
the room, ending an incident that took about 15 minutes.Yet the fallout has
been far more extensive, and continues.Strauss-Kahn was initially arrested at New York’s John
F. Kennedy
International Airport
while on board a Paris-bound plane. His arrest created an international furor,
prompting his resignation as IMF chief as New York Judge Michael Liverpool fC football shirt Obus ordered him held under a $6 million bail.After posting bond,
Strauss-Kahn had been confined to a luxury townhouse. But on July 1, the judge
freed him from house arrest after prosecutors presented evidence showing that
Diallo admitted she had lied about the specifics of her whereabouts after the
incident and, from her past, the details of an asylum application and
information she put on tax forms.But while the case took a dramatic turn, the
charges against the 62-year-old have not been dismissed. And there have been
more twists in recent weeks, including writer Tristane Banon’s Liverpool away shirt filing of a complaint accusing Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape in France, stemming from an alleged 2003 incident
in Paris. A
lawyer for Strauss-Kahn in France
said he subsequently filed a counter-claim against Banon for false
declarations.Still, most of the intrigue remains centered in the United States,
where lawyers for the suspect and the defendant continue to go back and forth
challenging each other’s tactics. Diallo’s interviews further stoked those
fires, prompting strongly worded responses from both sides.