The family of a woman whose baby girl drowned after being tossed into the Tweed River will arrive on Wednesday in northern NSW, where she has been released on bail.
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The woman, who cannot be identified, will plead not guilty to the charge of recklessly failing to provide her daughter with the necessities of life.
She faced Tweed Local Court by video link on Tuesday, was granted bail and released to the care of a supervised mental health facility in northern NSW.
Lawyer Tom Ivey told the court the family was "very supportive" and would be there to settle the woman into the facility, where she will undergo treatment.
Court documents obtained by AAP reveal the 23-year-old has a history of mental illness.
The documents refer to diary entries made by the mother where she wrote that her daughter was the "devil".
One entry calls for her partner to be released.
"Free that black man from his chains for he is innocent I do say. For he did slay the one you call the devil," she wrote.
The baby's father, a homeless 47-year-old, was charged on November 22 with murdering his daughter, whose body was found on the beach by passers-by three days earlier.
It was alleged the infant was thrown into the water at Tweed Heads in NSW, where she drowned, before her body drifted north for about 30km.
The couple's second child, a two-year-old boy, remains in foster care.
The woman will reappear in Tweed Local Court on February 25.
Australian Associated Press
