Strauss-Kahn admits sexual encounter a ‘moral failing’

THE former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has maintained that his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid did not involve violence, constraint or aggression, but still constituted a moral failing on his part.

In his first interview since his May 14 arrest over accusations of sexual assault, Strauss-Kahn told France’s TF1 television channel yesterday “what happened was more than an inappropriate relation. It was an error”

He added: “I regret it infinitely.”