A 44-year-old unemployed woman who was seen on video beating her 12-year-old daughter with a machete in St Thomas will make her first court appearance today.
She was arrested at her home at Bath in the parish earlier this month and charged with cruelty to a child.
The woman and her daughter were questioned by the police and officers of the Child Development Agency.
The video, which has gone viral, shows a partially nude woman beating the girl with a machete while cursing expletives.
A dog which came between the woman and the child was also slapped with the machete.
