A woman is accused of allowing her three young children to live in squalor while she smoked meth.

At the request of Longview police, a Kelso officer arrested Carrie Lynn Pena, 30, a transient who recently lived in Longview, when she arrived for a meeting Tuesday afternoon at Child Protective Services.

The Longview police report includes graphic details about the condition of Pena’s former residence and her children, a 3-year-old girl and 14-month-old twin boys.

A Longview officer who witnessed Pena’s eviction Oct. 29 from a rental home in the 200 block of 16th Avenue described a floor covered with moldy clothes, animal feces, sharp push pins, old food, garbage, dried vomit and cigarette butts.

The floor of the bedroom the three children shared was “covered in dirty laundry and garbage no less than 6-8 inches deep and there was dog feces and food on top of the laundry. The children’s room had a very pungent and foul odor of body fluids, filth and mold,” the report said.

One of the boys had open and bleeding sores in his diaper area, the report said. The boy is supposed to take medication for seizures daily, but no medicine was in the house, the report said. Very little food was in the house, and much of it was rotten, the report said.

Witnesses told police Pena regularly smoked meth in her bedroom while her daughter wandered in and out of the room.

Child Protective Services put the children in foster care. On Nov. 3, Pena failed to show up at CPS for a drug screen. The agency subsequently delivered paperwork to Pena terminating her parental rights, the report said.

A witness said Pena read the termination paperwork in her presence and saw the witness’ name. The witness said Pena became furious, blamed her for the children being taken away and threatened retaliation. The witness fled in fear.

Pena’s bail was set at $50,000. Charges are pending for three counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment, three counts of endangerment with a controlled substance and one count of intimidating a witness.