From wire reports

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- A woman wanted in the videotaped beating of her 4-year-old daughter outside a department store will turn herself in to authorities in Chicago, a lawyer said Friday night.

Stephen Rosen, a Texas lawyer who said he represents Madelyne Gorman Toogood, held a news conference in Chicago several hours after he contacted police who have been searching for the woman and her daughter.

"She's very remorseful. She regrets it," Rosen said.

Police in Mishawaka, about 60 miles east of Chicago, said they had been in contact with Rosen by telephone, but had no specific information about when or where Toogood might turn herself in.

Authorities feared the girl, Martha Toogood, might have been seriously injured when she was beaten and shaken outside a Kohl's store in Mishawaka on Sept. 13.

Rosen said Toogood's extended family members and friends told him the child was fine, but police said they wanted to girl to get medical attention.

"That's our biggest concern right now," said police chief Anthony A. Hazen hours before Rosen's news conference.

An arrest warrant issued Friday charged the mother with battery to a child.

The video showed the woman placing her daughter onto the back seat of a sport utility vehicle in the store's parking lot, then pummeling, slapping and shaking the girl for several seconds.

The episode happened after the woman left the store angry over being refused a cash refund, authorities said.

Toogood's sister, 31-year-old Margaret Daley, who authorities say was with her at the store, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor count of failure to report child abuse.

Texas authorities said Toogood is wanted on unrelated warrants there, including failure to pay a traffic ticket, and failure to appear in court to face theft charges.

Toogood is believed to be an Irish Traveller who has lived in the Fort Worth, Texas, area.

Irish Travellers are descendants of a nomadic ethnic group that came to the United States in the 1800s to escape the potato famine, roaming the country by horse and wagon in search of itinerant work. Most of the men make their living in home-improvement and repair work.

Law enforcement authorities say some of them scam their clients.