Bad mom!

That DSK? He’s been at it before:

Paris (CNN) — A French politician said Monday that International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is facing sexual assault charges in New York, attempted to assault her daughter in 2002.

Anne Mansouret, a member of parliament for the Socialist Party, said she cautioned her daughter, Tristane Banon, not to file a police report at the time, saying it might adversely impact her career. At the time, Banon was an aspiring journalist. …

Banon told him to let her go, and the incident ended with the two struggling on the floor, Mansouret said. Banon managed to escape the apartment and locked herself in her car outside, calling her mother. Mansouret said she arrived about an hour and a half later to find her daughter still locked in the car and looking “roughed up.” The heel of one shoe was broken, Mansouret recalled to CNN.

But Mansouret told her daughter not to file a complaint out of concern she would become known as Strauss-Kahn’s victim. …

CNN does not typically name assault victims, but Mansouret granted permission to name her daughter.

Bad mother! Top politician in your party tries to rape your daughter, and you tell her to cover it up? And then name her to CNN, years later?

If you wrote a novel about this sort of thing, you’d be laughed out of the publisher’s office — no-one would believe it.

And yet, there it is.

Does the head of the IMF get to claim diplomatic immunity?