Newspaper criticised over Aids allegation

THE New York Post is under fire for reporting that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn “may have more to worry about than a possible prison sentence” because the woman who has accused him of rape lives in housing for people with HIV.

In a story published on Wednesday, before the embattled French politician resigned from the IMF, the Post reported that the Sofitel maid who said he sexually assaulted her on Saturday “lives in a Bronx apartment rented exclusively for adults with HIV or Aids.”

The article noted the West African immigrant accused Strauss-Kahn of forcing her to perform oral sex on him, and suggested that, “It is possible for either partner to become infected with HIV through performing or receiving oral sex.”