BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge mom was arrested after her children were found alone in the street and trying to climb down a storm drain late Wednesday night. 

The Baton Rouge Police Department said Ladaisha Perkins three kids walked out of their apartment on Scholars Avenue around 11:30 p.m.

The trio, including two 2-year-olds, wandered near a storm drain and tried to climb down into it before staff at the apartment complex found them. 

Officers noted that the kids were filthy, wearing no shoes and "covered in feces and urine." The BRPD officer took the kids home where Perkins was asleep.

She said that she thought her children were upstairs and in bed. The report said that trash was overflowing in the home and that eggs had been tossed in the kitchen and living room. 

Perkins was arrested for three counts of cruelty to juveniles.