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A 21-year-old University of Kentucky cheerleader has been arrested after allegedly hiding her dead infant inside a closet.

The Lexington Police Department took Laken Snelling into custody Sunday after officers were "dispatched for an unresponsive infant at a residence in the 400 block of Park Avenue" earlier last week.

"When officers arrived, they located an infant that was pronounced deceased at the scene," police said. "The Fayette County Coroner’s Office will release the infant’s cause of death."

Snelling, whom the Lexington Police Department said was the infant’s mother, was charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.

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