Former Egyptian Banker Arrested... For Raping Maid

[Mr. Nnamdi]

Heres some more interesting news for you:

NEW YORK — The former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on similar allegations.

Police say Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar was arrested at the Pierre Hotel on Monday morning.

The 74-year-old businessman is accused of sexually abusing the maid and holding her against her will inside his hotel room.

Police say the incident happened Sunday night.

Police spokesman Paul Browne says detectives found the complainant to be credible.

Omar is the former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria.

Strauss-Kahn quit as the leader of the International Monetary Fund on May 18 after he was charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a different city hotel. He has denied the allegations, but is under house arrest as he awaits trial.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/mahmoud-abdel-salam-omar-arrested_n_868886.html
Damn, maids aren't doing so well this month.

*Edit: to make clear of the language title of thread, I am not insinuating that one should not be arrested for raping a hotel maid, nor that said charge is disingenuous. The dots are there to highlight that this happened (reported) twice in a small time period, in two separate incidents.

[Armand Tanzarian]

I must be behind as a banker. I've never completed a rape in my life. No wonder I'm still languishing at the bottom!

But I don't think its just recently that powerful men have been committing sexual violence. Anyone looking into DSK's own history could see how such behaviour was almost expected of powerful men. Just that women are (hopefully) more empowered to speak out about the violence.

[dakotabob]

They should be giving pepper spray or something to these maids, apparently they need some sort of protection from these bankers.

[Dragon Zachski]

One might be stupid and think "Well, isn't that a coincidence, all of these maids are suddenly the targets of rape? Suspicious."

Or one could be smart and realize that just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't happening, and that these rapes have likely been going on for longer and just been unreported due to the stigma against being raped.

[Ian1732]

This, combined with recent events, show that economists are the rape-iest profession out there.

[ltfred]

May 31, 2011 10:56:49 GMT -5 dakotabob said:

they need some sort of protection from these bankers.

Everyone does.

Without serious reregulation (which won't hapen) banking culture will be that they, as ubermensch, can and should get away with everything. Whether it be rape or plain old theft.

[sylvana]

May 31, 2011 13:27:47 GMT -5 Dragon Zachski said:

Or one could be smart and realize that just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't happening, and that these rapes have likely been going on for longer and just been unreported due to the stigma against being raped.

That is what my money is on. it is similar to the notion of the Arab spring. All the abuses have been happening and going unreported until the people see one person standing up. It gives them the courage to stand up as well. Given the vulnerability of people in a service industry job like a maid, I would expect there to be many many more cases of sexual harassment from guests.

[Art Vandelay]

May 31, 2011 9:59:58 GMT -5 Armand Tanzarian said:

I must be behind as a banker. I've never completed a rape in my life. No wonder I'm still languishing at the bottom!

Well then, stop half-arsing it and before you know it you'll be in upper management.