A woman attacked a probation officer with a glass bottle and then bragged about it on Facebook.

Alvina Daniels, 33, admitted to picking up a WKD bottle and throwing it at Junita Woolridge outside Devonshire Recreational Club on August 8 last year.

Ms Woolridge, an officer with Department of Court Services, was hit on the forehead and needed five stitches to close the three centimetre wound.

Daniels allegedly approached the victim and claimed she was not doing her job in regard to the defendant's boyfriend.

Words were exchanged and the defendant attacked Ms Woolridge with the bottle around 4 a.m., Magistrates' Court heard.

Daniels, of Berkeley Road in Pembroke, "unabashedly bragged" about her conduct the next day on Facebook, said Crown counsel Nicole Smith.

Twelve people posted their comments on the defendant's profile page encouraging the behaviour, the court heard.

Daniels, a revenue clerk with the Government of Bermuda, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in an earlier court appearance and appeared for sentencing yesterday. She was represented by defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher.

The mother-of-four disputed some of the evidence put forward by the Crown and a separate hearing was held on July 7. The court, however, accepted facts put forward by the prosecution and victim.

In court on Friday Daniels said: "I apologise for everything I have done. It was totally out of my character."

Speaking to the victim's mother in court she said: "I shouldn't have taken on anyone's problems and I had no right to do anything to anyone other than correcting my children. So I am truly sorry and if you could let your daughter know.

"I also apologise to the courts for this behaviour and I am just sorry for embarrassing my family and my job."

The prosecutor argued this was a serious offence whereby Daniels was a "virtual stranger" to Ms Woolridge.

Ms Smith said the victim suffered from post-traumatic concussions and chronic pain and headaches after the attack.

"The defendant is wholly to be blamed for this incident," Ms Smith said. "Her drunkenness, her drunken state really did not bear much on the behaviour of the defendant."

Ms Smith recommended a term of three years imprisonment and asked for $1,600 compensation for the victim's medical treatments.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Daniels: "In normal circumstances you should go to prison but I accept there are exceptional circumstances."

He said a term of imprisonment would be detrimental to her four children and said her previous good record and upstanding character had been taken into consideration.

Mr. Warner sentenced Daniels to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for 24 months.

He also ordered her to undergo 24 months of probation and to pay the victim $3,000 within the next six months.