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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b20fc8d7ad3e9f6e4bc0fd5b8a9c4b2" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling, 22, has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter charges by a Fayette County grand jury </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25de27355f88e54acb0558f4bf13488d" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>On August 3, 2025, her roommates found newborn son hidden in a closet in her off-campus apartment, wrapped in a trash bag and a towel </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7f507c61f07168af275b51a7ad52a165" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>Snelling was arrested and charged at the time with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8241fa9571e7cb0a2bee3638b52fddee" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>She pled not guilty, claiming she passed out and awoke to find the baby turning blue, dropped out of school and has been under house arrest since October 2025 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-115134462ba1a0c6224b5744055c69dd" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>She was charged on Tuesday following the ME&#8217;s report that found her baby was born alive in August 2025 and the cause of death was asphyxia </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-116aea3d61553a29875b7ed8fcb2e35d" style="color:#1c0505;font-size:14px"><strong>If convicted on first-degree manslaughter, she <strong>faces up to 20 years in prison, with an additional 11 years on the other charges</strong> </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Laken Snelling [photo], is facing charges of first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. Last year, her newborn son was found wrapped in a towel in a thrash bag inside a closet, in her off-campus apt</strong></p>



<p>Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter charges after her newborn son was found dead in a closet.<br>In August 2025, the 21-year-old college student was arrested after her newborn son was discovered hidden in a closet in her off-campus apartment, wrapped in a trash bag and a towel. <br>She pled not guilty to charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. <br>She passed out during the ordeal of giving birth she claimed, but woke up to find her baby turning blue.<br>Now 22, Snelling was charged on Tuesday by a Fayette County grand jury, on the heels of a report by the Kentucky Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office that found her baby was born alive in August 2025.<br>Cause of death for the infant is listed as asphyxia. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter after a report by the Kentucky ME&#8217;s Office confirmed her baby was born alive in August 2025. Her son did not die at birth as she claimed. Cause of death was asphyxia </strong></p>



<p>According to Kimberly Baird, the Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney, the state Medical Examiner&#8217;s report was key to securing the grand jury indictment. <br>&#8216;They were given the information about homicide, the four levels of homicide and then deliberated and decided that manslaughter first degree was the charge that should come out of the grand jury,&#8217; Baird said, adding that she is due back in court within the next three weeks.<br>Snelling has been on house arrest at her family home in Tennessee since October, and following her arrest she withdrew from the University of Kentucky and left the school&#8217;s cheerleading team. <br>The 22-year-old now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of first-degree manslaughter. Conviction on the other charges would add another 11 years of incarceration. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong><strong>Snelling was hiding her pregnancy before allegedly disposing of her newborn after birth in August &#8211; police. <strong>Photos from April 2025, show Snelling performing with UK&#8217;s STUNT team, apparently pregnant</strong> </strong></strong></p>



<p>The cheerleader was first charged on August 30, 2025, three days after she gave birth to a baby boy in her off-campus bedroom. <br>Her roommates told police that they believed she was concealing a pregnancy for some time, and said they heard strange noises coming from her room when she gave birth. <br>After giving birth, Snelling allegedly cleaned up the scene and left her home to go to McDonald&#8217;s.<br>Her roommates said they then discovered the newborn baby dead in a blood-soaked towel on the floor of her closet, wrapped in a plastic bag. <br>When one of the roommates then made the gruesome discovery, she reported to police that the infant was &#8216;cold to the touch.&#8217; <br>Snelling was arrested when she returned to the apartment, and in her first police interview she claimed the newborn was already dead when she gave birth. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Snelling who dropped out of school after the scandal has been on house arrest since October. She was charged Tuesday by a Fayette County grand jury following a report by the Kentucky ME&#8217;s Office that found her baby was born alive and the cause of death was asphyxia</strong></p>



<p>She initially said she didn&#8217;t believe the baby was &#8216;breathing or alive&#8217;, and then claimed to have passed out &#8216;on top of the baby&#8217;, and woke up to find it &#8216;turning blue and purple&#8217;.<br>Court documents said Snelling told investigators she wrapped her newborn up &#8216;like a burrito&#8217; and &#8216;laid next to it&#8217;, explaining that she was panicking and it &#8216;gave her a little comfort in the moment.&#8217; <br>Police later alleged that Snelling told a medical worker that her newborn had shown &#8216;a little bit of fetal movement&#8217;, and made a &#8216;whimper&#8217; when he was born. <br>As officers continued to investigate in the days that followed, they executed a search warrant on Snelling&#8217;s phone and requested access to her Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and a shared iCloud account with her mother.<br>Snelling&#8217;s browsing history allegedly, included subjects pertaining to pregnancy. <br>She had images of herself during labor, photos of her doing things a pregnant woman ordinarily should not be doing and a concealed or hidden pregnancy,&#8217; the affidavit said.<br>&#8216;Other items could have also been deleted in an attempt to hide any evidence of the pregnancy, birth and newborn baby,&#8217; Lexington police note, including information related to &#8216;the birth of the full-term baby.&#8217;<br>Authorities also found that her phone contained &#8216;images of her during labor,&#8217; which she allegedly &#8216;deleted in an attempt to hide the birth.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>It remains unclear who fathered the dead infant</strong>. <strong>Snelling previously dated Izaiah Hall, [photo], 21, the quarterback for the school&#8217;s football team. In September 2025, was asked by police to hand over a DNA sample, but the outcome is not public</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Snelling posted photos posed with then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24. In one [right], posted in June she appears to be hiding her belly</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Questioned by police on the demise of her newborn, Snelling claimed she was conscious for 30 minutes after giving birth, before &#8216;falling asleep on top of the baby and going back to sleep&#8217; </strong></p>



<p>It is unclear whether Snelling disclosed her pregnancy to those in her circle, although footage from April shows Snelling performing with school&#8217;s STUNT team with a seeming baby bump.<br>Snelling also posted images in June where her then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24, where she seemed to cover her front.<br>Snelling was previously in a relationship with college quarterback Izaiah Hall who underwent a DNA test to determine whether the baby was his.</p>



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Former college cheerleader, Laken Snelling, 22, faces two decades in prison if convicted for alleged ‘asphyxiation of newborn son’ who was found dead in closet
