Kept in custody: Strauss-Kahn, centre left, listens to Assistant District Attorney Artie McConnell, foreground left, as he is arraigned before Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson, right
Victim called her brother an hour after alleged assault
Claimed Strauss-Kahn 'twice forced himself on her'
IMF chief is denied $1million bail by New York court
Spends his first night in cell at Rikers Island prison
Police reportedly found blood on sheets in suite
Fresh claim he victimised other maids at same hotel
The alleged rape victim of Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a relative in her first phone call after the attack: 'Somebody did something really bad to me', he revealed tonight.
The woman phoned her older brother an hour after the alleged assault took place and gave him a horrifying account what the head of the IMF allegedly did to her.
Crying uncontrollably, she said that she had been trapped inside the hotel bedroom while the Frenchman twice tried to force himself on her.
She told him he was the first member of family to whom she had revealed the alleged attack.
He said he told her not to talk to anybody and immediately contacted a lawyer to represent her.
Speaking exclusively to Mail Online as Strauss-Kahn spent his first night in Rikers Island prison after being refused $1million dollar bail, the brother said: 'No family should have to go through this.
'She is a hard working woman who is just a victim. She is a wonderful west African immigrant who just wants to work hard.
'I love her, she is my little sister and she is doing better now she has had a chance to talk to a lawyer. She is somewhere very, very safe and will stay that way'.
The brother, 43, a restaurant manager from Harlem in New York, said his sister, 32, called him on Saturday in the afternoon, a mere hour or so after she claimed the attack took place. He recalled: 'She rang me and she said: "Somebody has done something really bad to me. I've been attacked".
'She was crying all the time'.
The brother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said that he wanted to see Strauss-Kahn face a trial if he pleaded not guilty.
'I trust the American justice system and will let it do what it has to do,' he said.
'I want him to see justice. Justice will be served'.
Meanwhile Strauss-Kahn was spending his first night in an isolation cell at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after he was denied $1m bail on charges that he raped the hotel maid.
Today prosecutors revealed graphic details of Strauss-Kahn’s alleged brutal sex attack on the maid at a bail hearing in front of a female judge at Manhattan's criminal court.
Police also reportedly found blood found on bed sheets in the hotel suite where the assault allegedly took place and DNA samples on carpet and fabric that they removed for testing.
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A rape kit is also said to have found DNA on the victim after she reported the attack.
Looking haggard and wearing the previous day's clothes Strauss-Kahn, 62, who should have been meeting with European finance ministers in Brussels, stood at the bench next to his lawyer Benjamin Brafman as prosecutors outlined the severity of the charges against him.
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