The US army will court-martial Private Lynndie England, one of the most recognisable figures in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, next January.
The trial will take place from January 17th to 28th, said Lieutenant General John Vines, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps.
England, who is eight months pregnant, will face charges including counts of abuse and indecent acts. She faces up to 38 years in jail, a dishonourable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.
England did not enter a plea at her arraignment last Friday.
She is one of seven members of her company charged in connection with abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison late last year.
Photographs of England posing with nude men stacked in a pyramid and holding a naked detainee by a leash made her a focal point of the scandal.
Her lawyers argued in the hearing that she posed for the pictures on orders from higher-ups to "soften up" Iraqi prisoners.
They sought unsuccessfully to call high-level witnesses as Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Military prosecutors portrayed the abuse as the work of a renegade band of reservists.
AP