Rozita Mohd Ali, dressed in black and wearing dark glasses, reached the court just before 9am, accompanied by her lawyers.
Last week, she failed to turn up for a hearing of the prosecution’s appeal against the Sessions Court’s decision to bind her to a good behaviour bond.
Police said they managed to track her down after receiving a notice from the court.
Rozita, 44, was bound over for five years on a bond of RM20,000 by the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court after she changed her plea and pleaded guilty to causing grievous hurt to Indonesian maid Suyanti Sutrinso.
A video of Suyanti seriously injured and lying near a drain in a housing area in Mutiara Damansara had gone viral in December 2016.
It was reported then that Rozita had allegedly used a kitchen knife, a clothes hanger, a steel mop and an umbrella to cause multiple injuries to Suyanti’s head, hands, legs and internal organs.
An online petition against the court’s sentence attracted more than 70,000 signatures.