Mother accused of locking her young daughter out of their apartment...so she could have sex?!

TEXAS (WITI) -- A Texas mom is under arrest, accused of letting her six-year-old daughter roam the streets of Houston...so she could have sex with her boyfriend.

FOX6's sister station, PIX11 reports police say 22-year-old Jolisa Renee Peterson locked her daughter out of their apartment so she could be with her boyfriend.

PIX11 reports the woman denied knowing the girl had left the apartment. Police say the little girl told them she walked to the gas station twice to get a soda.

Police say the girl had to cross two very busy roads and go under a highway overpass to make her way to the gas station.

Police were called when someone saw the child trying to cross at a busy intersection.

The little girl apparently told police she didn't go to school, because her mother was "asleep with a boy."

Peterson has been charged with endangering a child.

An apartment manager told police he often saw the six-year-old and her two-year-old brother around their apartment complex without adult supervision.

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