Police: Houston parents leave daughter home alone to see Godflesh concert in Detroit

PHOTOS: Traveling parents John Guerrero, 48, and Virginia Yearnd, 39, were arrested Monday after they allegedly left their 11-year-old daughter home alone in Houston while they traveled to Detroit for a concert. less PHOTOS: Traveling parents John Guerrero, 48, and Virginia Yearnd, 39, were arrested Monday after they allegedly left their 11-year-old daughter home alone in Houston while they traveled to Detroit for a ... more Photo: Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office Photo: Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Police: Houston parents leave daughter home alone to see Godflesh concert in Detroit 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

The Motor City's calling for two Houston-area parents landed them behind bars Monday after they allegedly left their 11-year-old daughter home alone to travel cross-country for a concert.

The parents, John Guerrero, 48, and Virginia Yearnd, 39, were arrested Monday after they arrived back in Houston after seeing English rock band Godflesh, according to the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office.

Guerrero and Yearnd left their Spring home Wednesday for the concert that night, according to court documents.

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Deputies found out the girl was home alone only after her great aunt called police to report the incident Thursday, according to court documents. The woman called the young girl and learned she had been home alone since the previous morning.

Deputies called the parents several times to try and talk with them but couldn't get through for hours, police said. They eventually got a hold of Yearnd, who initially told them they were in Louisiana, court documents state.

She later came clean with deputies about her and Guerrero taking the trip to Detroit to see the English rock group live, deputies said.

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When deputies got to the home to check on the girl, they found her trying to cook. The mother had told deputies that she asked her sister to check in on the child, but the girl told deputies no one came by. It is unclear when deputies got to the home to check on the girl.

The parents were arrested Monday on second-degree felony child endangerment charges.

In Texas, a parent - or anyone else who has custody or cares over a child under 15 - can be charged with child endangerment if he or she "intentionally abandons the child in any place under circumstances that expose the child to an unreasonable risk of harm," according to the Texas Penal Code.

They were booked in to the Harris County Jail with no bond, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman. They are facing up to 20 years in prison, if convicted.

Child Protective Services is looking into the incident, deputies said.

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