By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Teen Mom Amber Portwood’s daughter has no idea her mother is serving time in an Indiana jail, Breaking Celebrity News reports.

According to the 22-year-old reality TV star’s baby daddy Gary Shirley, young Leah, 3, has been kept in the dark about her mom’s whereabouts because he says he can’t bear to tell the toddler.

Portwood has been locked away at Rockville Correctional Facility since June 5 after a judge re-imposed a 5-year prison sentence on the TV train wreck after she chose to give up a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program.

“I haven’t been able to say to her, that her ‘Mommy’s in jail,’” Shirley said.

“When I tried to tell her, ‘Mommy’s in trouble,’ she got upset. So, I’ve said, ‘Mommy’s at work,’ or ‘Mommy’s on vacation.’”

However, communication between Amber and Leah hasn’t been completely cut off. The pair DO talk to one another over the phone.

Leah will say, “‘I miss you. When can I see you?’” Shirley revealed in an interview with In Touch Weekly.

“She actually said, ‘Can I come over to your house?’ I don’t really think Leah understands at all.”

But despite the heartache of a missing mom, Leah is growing up fast and Gary says she is a “very smart, intelligent girl” and a big fan of kids’ cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants and loves playing with baby dolls. However, her father is worried that: “She loves real babies more!”

Shirley, 25, is currently unemployed but looki