<i>Strauss-Kahn sex with maid appeared 'non-consensual' </i>

Nafissatou Diallo (L) and Strauss-Kahn (R)

The hurried sex ending with Dominique Strauss-Kahn ejaculating on his hotel room maid may well have been forced, but lies told by the maid in the aftermath doomed any chance of putting the powerful Frenchman on trial, prosecutors say.
In the fullest official account yet of what happened in the Manhattan Sofitel on May 14, prosecutors said there was a good chance that the then International Monetary Fund chief sexually assaulted Nafissatou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant.
But the case collapsed because the maid told repeated lies and "their cumulative effect would be devastating," prosecutors said in their 25-page motion asking the court to dismiss all charges.
DNA testing "established that several stains located on the upper portion of the complainant's hotel uniform dress contained semen that yielded the defendant's DNA," the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in the motion.
Evidence was "consistent with a non-consensual encounter," prosecutors said.
In the motion, the DA's office said the physical evidence, while showing a sexual encounter, did not conclusively prove the maid's assertion that she was assaulted and forced to perform oral sex.
However, other factors, such as the hurried nature of the sex act that resulted in Strauss-Kahn's semen landing on the maid's clothing, pointed to a forced encounter.
"The encounter between the complainant and the defendant was brief, suggesting that the sexual act was not likely a product of a consensual encounter," the motion said.
The motion said: "These findings suggest that the defendant touched the complainant's undergarments, but they do not controvert or confirm the complainant's account that the defendant placed his hand inside her underwear and groped her genitals directly."