Imagine trying to live the college girl life while trying to hide a baby. That’s exactly what Laken Snelling did.
Laken Snelling was a stunt team member at the University of Kentucky. On August 27th, her roommates found a baby boy wrapped in a trash bag, deceased in her room.
Snelling is 21 years old and obviously in college. The night that she gave birth, she was doing what college students do on a Friday night: partying. Around 4 am, Snellings’ roommates had heard a loud thud coming from her room and checked her room the next morning. What they found was truly disgusting.
Snelling allegedly gave birth on August 27th in her University of Kentucky dorm room. She reported hearing a slight whimper before passing out on her baby, whom she had just given birth to. When she woke up to her alarm for the University Stunt team clinic around 7 am (which she did not attend), she saw that the newborn was purple and blue, so she wrapped the baby in a towel and put a trash bag around the infant, and placed it in her closet.
When Snelling left for her clinic, her roommates went into her room and saw the trash bag in her closet, opened it, and saw the deceased baby, and immediately called the police. When the police arrived on the scene, the infant was pronounced deceased.
At some point (time unclear), she was found and detained, and then soon transported to the hospital, where she told the hospital staff that her newborn displayed “slight fetal movement” and “made a whimper sound,” meaning when she gave birth, the baby was not deceased yet.
On September 26th, Snelling had her trial. Snellings’ preliminary hearing only lasted 35 seconds, and then she was moved to the Grand Jury. During the Trial, there was a search warrant for her phone, and the detective(s) found the unexplained. The Search warrant revealed deleted photos of Snelling in the process of her giving birth, which she took. The detective(s) also found searches related to “hidden pregnancy” or “concealed pregnancy.”
Snelling has since been released on a $100,000 bond and placed under house arrest, forcing her to move back to her hometown with her parents in Tennessee. She no longer attends the University of Kentucky and is obviously no longer a part of the stunt team.
