IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attac...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square on Saturday to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attac...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite Saturday at a hotel near New York's Times Square to clean it. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite Saturday at a hotel near New York's Times Square to clean it. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attac...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attac...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Andrew Gombert, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the all...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square to clean it. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, head of the International Monetary Fund listens to his attorney Benjamin Brafman, center, during arraignment proceedin...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, head of the International Monetary Fund listens to his attorney Benjamin Brafman, center, during arraignment proceedings Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court, on charges for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square to clean it. At left is his other attorney William Taylor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
APTOPIX IMF Head Assault
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on charg...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid on Saturday. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand, Pool)
France IMF Head Wife
FILE - In this Nov.16, 2006 file photo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn with his wife Anne Sinclair, smile after voting in Sarcelles, outside Paris. Since the...
FILE - In this Nov.16, 2006 file photo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn with his wife Anne Sinclair, smile after voting in Sarcelles, outside Paris. Since their marriage in 1991, the wife of jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has steadfastly defended her husband through multiple political and financial scandals, "with tooth and claw" as she once told a French news magazine. Now the former star television interviewer and wealthy heiress is faced with the most searing test of her loyalty yet, as she stands by her man amid accusations he tried to rape a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
The lawyer for a hotel maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual abuse says she feels "alone in the world" and is telling the truth.
Lawyer Jeffrey Shapiro says the maid is an immigrant from the West African nation of Guinea with a 15-year-old daughter. He says she had no idea who Strauss-Kahn was until a day or two after she was attacked on Saturday.
Shapiro says his client's story of being attacked by Strauss-Kahn in his Sofitel hotel suite is "consistent" because she is telling the truth.
The 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn is jailed in New York on charges including attempted rape after being denied bail on Monday. His attorney has said that he is innocent.
The maid has not been identified.
