FORT WALTON BEACH — A woman is in hot water after she left her child unsupervised to go have sex with a neighbor and the child wandered into the middle of the road.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigated the incident in which the 27-year-old Fort Walton Beach mom allegedly left her child unattended to have sex with a neighbor.

Another neighbor was awakened about 1:30 a.m. by a child screaming and went outside to see the child standing in the road with no shirt or shoes. He called 911.

The child was unable to tell deputies where he lived.

After about half an hour of searching, the mom came out of a neighbor’s house. She admitted leaving the child alone for a sexual liaison with the neighbor, but said her uncle was in the house, though she didn’t specifically ask him to watch the boy.

The deputy who wrote the arrest report said the neighbor who called 911 lived the same distance away as the neighbor whose house the woman was visiting, yet she didn’t hear the child screaming.

The uncle was awakened. He said he didn’t know the woman had left and was never asked to watch the boy.

The woman was charged with child neglect and has a Nov. 9 court date.