was arrested after police found a dead infant \u201cwrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag\u201d in her off-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
campus apartment closet. She admitted to giving birth and \u201ccleaning up the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Legal Proceedings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Snelling faces charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and concealing the birth of an infant, which she has pled not guilty to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was released on a $100,000 bond<\/strong> and ordered to live with her parents until her September 26 court date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Fayette County Coroner\u2019s Office<\/strong> ruled the cause of death inconclusive, pending \u201cextensive microcosmic analyses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coroner Gary Ginn stated: \u201cWe are conducting a thorough and methodical death investigation to ensure all facts are carefully considered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Snelling has withdrawn from the university. A DNA test is underway to confirm paternity, with ex-boyfriend Izaiah Hall<\/strong> believed to be the father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arrest and Charges University of Kentucky student and former STUNT cheerleader Laken Snelling, 21, was arrested after police found a dead infant \u201cwrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag\u201d in her off- campus apartment closet. She admitted to giving birth and \u201ccleaning up the evidence.\u201d Legal Proceedings Snelling faces charges of abuse of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Investigation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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