Toddlers left outside in rain

A Post Falls woman accused by police of being unconscious due to methamphetamine use while her toddlers were outside in a rainstorm has been arrested and her children taken into protective custody.

Kara J. Flores, 25, was arrested Monday and has been charged in 1st District Court with felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor injury to a child.

She was held in the Kootenai County Jail on $20,000 bond.

Police said Flores’ 2-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl were wet and wearing T-shirts; the girl also wore a soiled diaper hanging to her knees.

Police were alerted by someone who saw the children.