Cheerleader Laken Snelling is in trouble after allegedly hiding newborn baby’s body in a closet.
The University of Kentucky has been rocked by a story so shocking, it sounds more like something from a crime drama than a college campus. Cheerleader Laken Snelling is now at the center of a disturbing investigation, after being accused of hiding her newborn baby’s body in a closet.
The cheerleader was ordered by a judge to wear an ankle monitor after prosecutors described the case as one of the most chilling they’ve seen in years.
The 21-year-old had already been placed under house arrest and was seen in exclusive photos obtained by the Daily Mail makeup-free and wearing pajamas as she was shuttled between her divorced parents’ homes earlier this month.
But on Wednesday, the judge in her case added a new restriction – electronic monitoring at her father’s home in Jefferson County, Tennessee, Fox 56 reports.
Snelling is now required to contact pretrial services by next Wednesday to get fitted with the device, according to WTVQ.
What would make a woman take such extreme decision about her newborn baby? This is sad!
The glamorous former cheerleader was arrested on August 30, after police found the body of a newborn baby boy wrapped in a trash bag and towel in her bedroom closet at her college home in Lexington, Kentucky.
Authorities believe she gave birth to the child in the early morning hours of August 27, and the infant was alive at the time of delivery.
Snelling is now facing charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.
She could also face a murder charge depending on the outcome of an autopsy report on her baby.
Could it be that she’s suffering from severe mental illness? This is what prosecutors believed to have happened.
Prosecutors have alleged that Snelling gave birth at around 4am on August 27, when her roommates said they heard loud noises coming from her bedroom.
Speaking to cops days later, Snelling said she was awake for about half an hour following childbirth before she passed out and fell asleep on top of the infant, according to an affidavit.
When she awoke, Snelling allegedly said she saw the baby was ‘turning blue and purple,’ leading her to believe the child was dead.
At that point, she said she wrapped the youngster up ‘like a burrito and laid it on the floor next to her because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’
She then apparently fell asleep again, and woke up to her alarm at 7.30am – at which point she allegedly placed the baby in a towel and the placenta in a black trash bag, which she placed in her closet.
Meanwhile, Snelling is said to have told staff at the University of Kentucky Labor and Delivery Unit that her baby had shown ‘a little bit of fetal movement’ and made a ‘whimper,’ and that she ‘guessed’ he was alive at birth.
When authorities finally found the infant’s body inside her closet, they also noted he ‘appeared to be full-term.’
This could mean one, she wasn’t proud to be a mother or wasn’t prepared for motherhood.
However, unearthed footage from April shows Snelling performing with UK’s STUNT team with what appears to be a pregnancy bump.
Snelling also posted images in June where her then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24, where she seemed to cover her front.
For now, Laken Snelling remains under strict monitoring, awaiting the next steps in a case that has not only shocked everyone.
