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Lawyer: Hotel Maid ‘Traumatized’

IMF chief's alleged victim said to be in hiding.

At the center of an international sex scandal, the lawyer for the woman who accused International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said she is “traumatized” by the whole incident. “There is no way in which there is any aspect of this event which could be construed consensual in any manner,” said the alleged victim’s lawyer Jeffrey Shapiro. Shapiro said the accuser, a maid at the posh Sofitel New York hotel and a native of the West African country of Guinea, is now in hiding and feels “alone in the world.” Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that Strauss-Kahn is “obviously not in a position” to run the IMF, and the 24-member executive board will appoint an interim head. Strauss-Kahn faces seven counts of attempted rape and sexual assault and could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.