Strauss-Kahn lawyer says sex with maid was consensual

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique  Strauss-Kahn had consensual sex with the hotel maid who accused  him of sexual assault, his defense lawyer said yesterday,  adding that their comparative sizes would have ruled out a  forcible encounter.  
“This encounter was quick, it was consensual and she was a  willing participant,” defense attorney Benjamin Brafman told  Reuters in an interview.  

A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal sexual  assault charges against Strauss-Kahn, 62, after prosecutors  said they had lost faith in the credibility of his accuser,  Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old hotel maid from Guinea. 
 
Diallo accused him of forcing her to have oral sex when she  went into his $3,000-a-day suite in New York’s Sofitel Hotel to  clean it and he emerged naked to attack her. Strauss-Kahn  denied her allegations.  

Prosecutors gave up on the case because of contradictions  in Diallo’s account of what happened immediately following the  sexual encounter on May 14 and because of lies about her past.  

Brafman said he found her story implausible largely because  “she towers over him.”  
“In a one-on-one she would probably win if this turned into  a fist fight. She is not a small person,” Brafman said.