Ex-IMF chief's accuser speaks to media

[jaysunb]

Source: L.A. Times

Reporting from New York— The maid who says she was sexually assaulted by prominent Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn stepped out in public Sunday, allowing her name and face to be used in two media interviews in which she described in vivid detail the alleged attack.

Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea, is apparently concerned that the Manhattan district attorney will drop four felony and three misdemeanor charges against Strauss-Kahn because of questions about her credibility that arose during the investigation.

"I never want to be in public but I have no choice," Diallo told ABC News in an interview that is scheduled to air Monday and Tuesday. Now, I have to be in public. I have to, for myself. I have to tell the truth." Her photograph is on the cover of Newsweek and she appears strolling with her interviewer in a photograph distributed by ABC on Sunday.



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dsk-maid-speaks-20110725,0,1927077.story

[Prometheus Bound]

1. Oh man. Good for her. The IMF guy's crew should have foregone the dirty tricks.

Calling her a prostitute has really pissed her off. Sounds like the IMF guy wasted his money on his high-priced legal help.

You go girl. And sue the NY Post for all they got while you're at it.

[MADem]

3. I tend to agree with your assessment. I think people with money

tend to believe they can both buy and lie their way out of scrapes.

I wonder if the other woman he attacked, who came over from France to meet this woman, gave her the guts to get out in front on this?

[aquart]

2. I wonder how many hours of coaching she got

to tamp down that tendency to embroidery.