At least she got probation...a small punishment but a punishment still. Now, the police will be keeping an eye on her...and hopefully her kid too. I don't know what the laws and such are where you are, but if a person gets any type of assult charges on the record here they are watched very closely and another assult conviction (or any conviction really) means that they go to jail for quite a long time.

The downer (here at least) is that it is very hard to get a conviction of assult.