Maid assaulted by Strauss-Kahn speaks about incident in black mega church

New York, July 31 (ANI): The New York hotel maid, who accused former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, had spoken about her 'horrifying' ordeal before black leaders including pastors, lawyers, politicians and activists, in a black mega-church.

Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinean immigrant was flanked by a prominent figure of New Black Panther Party as she said, "What happened to me, I don't want that to happen to any other woman."

Diallo's supporters threw explosive accusations about race and politics, so much so that some are now beginning to doubt whether justice will ever be done in a case that is being ruthlessly conducted in a noisy court of public opinion rather than in the calm of a legal chamber.

Diallo's backers took aim at Cyrus Vance Junior, the Manhattan district attorney who was widely believed to be on the verge of dropping the case after his investigators uncovered multiple lies by Diallo.

According to The Telegraph, Noel Leader, a former police sergeant who heads a group called 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, accused Vance of 'throwing this victim of sexual abuse under a bus' and 're-victimising our sister'.

Leader is among those now arguing that black communities should withdraw political support from Vance, the scion of a prominent Democratic family, whose position is an elected one.

The gathering harked back to the 1980s when black leaders, most notably Reverend Al Sharpton, sought to whip up community outrage to impose political pressure on prosecutors in cases they believed had racial undertones. (ANI)