RIVERTON -- A Riverton mother was arrested Thursday night for child endangerment after police found her drunk in her home with her three children running around naked and living in squalor.

Riverton police identified the mother as 24-year-old Phoebe Soundingsides. They said only that the children ranged in ages from 2 to 6 years old.

Sgt. Bart Ringer described the residence on East Madison in Riverton as unlivable because it was not only strewn with rotten food, garbage, dirty dishes and empty liquor bottles, but the floor was covered in human waste.

The sergeant said the children are OK. He said they ran to a relative's place next door when police arrived on the scene. The children were left in the custody of the relative after an interview with the local Department of Family Services.

The mother had almost four times the presumptive limit of alcohol in her system, according to the police report. She blew a blood-alcohol concentration of .30.

Ringer said officers went to the residence on a report of a fight.

"Blood was found all over the place," he said.

The mother was charged additionally with resisting arrest, as were her three adult companions, who all fought with police. Two of them, Edward Soundingsides, 25, and Loveda Bell, 29, registered blood-alcohol concentrations of about .35. The fourth person, 31-year-old Marland Underwood, refused to be tested.

Leslie Stratmoen is the KVOW/KTAK news director in Riverton