The maid who claims that Dominique Strauss–Kahn sexually assaulted her at an upmarket New York hotel has been named by the French media.

The woman is a 32-year-old West African immigrant who is married and has a 16-year-old daughter.
Her 43-year-old brother described her as a "wonderful, hard-working woman" who loved her job and had been left devastated by what happened.
The woman's brother, in interviews with the American media, refused to say where his sister was but confirmed she was "safe".
"No family should have to go through this," he added.
The 43-year-old, who runs a cafe in Harlem, said his sister contacted him soon after the incident.

"She rang me and she said 'somebody has done something really bad to me, I've been attacked'," he said. "She was crying all the time".
He said his sister was "a hardworking woman who's just a victim" but added that he was confident that despite the alleged perpetrator's fame, she would get justice.
"This is America. Justice will be served," he said. "That's why we love America."
Neighbours who live near the alleged victim in her working-class neighbourhood in the Bronx said she was soft-spoken and kept to herself.
"She's very shy, she's very quiet," said Mark Gangadeen, head of the tenants' association at the six-story brick building where the woman lives.
If the incident had happened in Britain, the Sexual Offences Act would protect the identify of any victim of such an assault. Because the case is abroad, there is no legal reason why she cannot be named in this country.
In New York, there is no law protecting the identity of sexual offence victims but the media do not identify them by convention.
However the French media, including reputable magazine Paris Match, had no such qualms.
"No one has yet seen her," the magazine reports on its website. "She is under police protection in a secret location... In the United States, no one is mentioning her identity as is often the case with this kind of incident."
Varying reports say she is from Ghana, Senegal and Guinea, and lived on the fourth floor of a red brick apartment block in the Bronx. Neighbours there said she was a devout muslim who wore a headscarf and worked long hours at the Sofitel Hotel.
According to a close friend, she had no idea who the man she alleges attacked her was, and only discovered that he was the head of the International Monetary Fund while watching the news on television that evening. "She has spent two days crying," the friend added.

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