Overview
- Police say officers responded Aug. 27 to a Lexington home on Park Avenue and found a deceased infant wrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag placed in a closet.
- An arrest citation reports Laken Ashlee Snelling admitted to giving birth and to concealing the birth by cleaning evidence and placing items and the infant in the bag.
- Snelling, 21, was arrested over the weekend and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant, then pleaded not guilty at Tuesday’s arraignment.
- Court records show she posted a $100,000 bond and was released to home incarceration at her parents’ residence in Tennessee without an ankle monitor, with a return date set for Sept. 26.
- The Fayette County Coroner’s Office has not released a cause of death, the Lexington Police Special Victims Section continues to investigate, and the University of Kentucky confirmed she has been on its STUNT team.