Cops in Kentucky were startled to find a dead newborn wrapped in a plastic bag — and accused the infant's mother of being behind the grim discovery.

The mother, a 21-year-old University of Kentucky cheerleader named Laken Snelling, stands accused of abuse of a corpse , tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. The Lexington Police Department was called around 10:30 a.m. Thursday about an unresponsive infant at a home in the 400 block of Park Avenue, just blocks away from campus.

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They arrived at the home and pronounced the infant dead at the scene.

Local NBC affiliate WLEX obtained an arrest citation that said the "infa

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