A jury has heard evidence from an eight-year-old girl whose mother is charged with her attempted murder in Co Clare in 2022.
The 49-year-old accused, who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of her daughter, has pleaded not guilty.
The trial before the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick has heard the child was stabbed on multiple occasions during the incident, which took place at temporary accommodation in Clare, on 27 September 2022.
The jury was shown a recording of an interview with the eight-year-old, which was conducted by a garda two months after the alleged attack.
The child described waking up to see her mother pacing the bedroom, looking for something in the cupboards, before stabbing her with "a big kitchen knife".
The court heard she pleaded with her mother to "please stop".
She described hearing her neighbour knocking on the bedroom door, shouting at her mother to open it.
"Mom walked over to me and grabbed me and pulled me in the door of the bathroom and she continued to hit me," she told the garda.
She recalled seeing the bed covered in blood as she was dragged into the bathroom.
The child told the garda that her mother said: "I'm going to kill you and after I’m going to kill myself because that is what is best."
She said her mother told her she was afraid that someone was going to take her, and that she reassured her that if anyone took her, she would find her way back.
During the interview, the girl was asked how the incident had stopped. She said her mother calmed down and sat down in the bathroom, and started to talk to her "in a really tired and sad voice".
"I was afraid to say anything. I was quiet. I think my mom was waiting for me to give up," she told the garda.
The court was told that the girl sustained life threatening injuries, with in excess of 70 wounds to her body.
She was taken to University Hospital Limerick before being transferred to CHI at Crumlin in Dublin.
The court has heard how the accused had fled the war in Ukraine and sought refuge here with her family in or around March 2022.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo and is expected to last into next week.
