Maid at centre of DSK scandal thanks supporters
(28 Jul 2011) 1. Mid of Nafissatou Diallo entering news conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nafissatou Diallo, hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault: "I''m going through a lot. My daughter, we are going through a lot. We (are) crying everyday. We can''t sleep. Me and my family, we are going through a lot. It''s not that all.. sorry." 3. Mid of Diallo''s lawyers at the podium 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nafissatou Diallo, hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault: "I''m here because I had people call me a lot of bad names, a lot of bad ... I hear a lot of things, bad things people calling me. That''s why I had to be here and let people know a lot of things that people say about me is not true." 5. Mid of Diallo''s lawyer, Kenneth Thompsonm standing at the podium, Diallo in background 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who accused former IMF chef Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault: "What happened to me, I don''t want that it to happen to any other woman because this is just too much for me. It''s too much for me and my daughter. And I''m here to thank everybody. Lots of people support me. I want to thank everybody." 7. Mid of Diallo exiting the news conference. STORYLINE: The hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault made her first public appearance on Thursday, thanking her supporters and saying she and her family had gone through a lot in the last two months. "What happened to me, I don''t want that to happen to any other woman because this is just too much for me," Diallo told a throng of reporters at a cultural centre in Brooklyn. It was the 32-year-old Guinean immigrant''s first public appearance since breaking her silence in recent interviews with ABC and Newsweek. "I had to be here and let people know a lot of things that people say about me is not true," she said. It''s nearly unheard of for an alleged sex assault victim to speak publicly before the end of court proceedings, and it''s not clear whether her decision to come forward affected her already-tenuous relationship with the prosecutors investigating her case. Diallo and her lawyer met with prosecutors on Wednesday for nearly eight hours, their first meeting since the Manhattan district attorney''s office publicly announced they had doubts about her credibility because of lies on her asylum application and taped recordings between Diallo and a friend in an Arizona immigration jail. Diallo''s lawyer Kenneth Thompson said she has been wrongfully portrayed as a money-grubbing opportunist in newspaper accounts of her recorded remarks to the incarcerated friend. Strauss-Kahn has been charged with attempted rape and other crimes. The former French presidential candidate has denied Diallo''s accusations. His next court date is August 23, and his lawyers have said they hope the case will be dropped. Diallo said the past two months had been filled with a lot of tears from her and her teenage daughter. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
