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# Dominique Strauss-Kahn: maid experienced 'extraordinary trauma'
## The Manhattan hotel chambermaid who was allegedly sexually attacked by
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has had her 'world turned upside down', her lawyer
said.
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In his first public comments since taking on the 32-year-old Sofitel maid's
case, Jeffrey Shapiro said the trauma she experienced during and after the
alleged assault had been "extraordinary".
The maid alleges that when she arrived to clean the IMF managing director's
suite at noon on Saturday, he locked her inside, attempted to rape her and
forced her to give him oral sex.
Before the alleged attack, she lived in a small flat in The Bronx, the
northernmost borough of New York City, with her teenage daughter.
"Her world has been turned upside down," said Mr Shapiro. "This is a person
who was a hardworking woman, she's a single mother supporting a 15-year-old
young woman. They live together.
"And she was grateful to have a job, through which she could provide food and
shelter for the two of them," he told CNN.
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"Since this has occurred, she's not been able to go home, can't go back to
work. She's no idea what her future is going to be, in any respect.
"So aside from what took place in the hotel room, the trauma that has taken
place in her life is extraordinary."
The maid, who has not been named due to the nature of the alleged crime, was
born in Guinea, in west Africa, and had worked at the Sofitel for the last
two-and-a-half to three years, Mr Shapiro said.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has been charged with a series of sex crimes relating to the
alleged attack. He has been denied bail and is being held at New York's Rikers
Island jail before his next court hearing.
He denies all charges.
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