The University of Kentucky competitive cheerleader accused of stuffing her dead baby into a closet appeared in court on Tuesday, September 2.

Laken Snelling, 21, pleaded not guilty to charges of Abuse of a Corpse, Tampering with Physical Evidence and Concealing the Birth of an Infant in a Lexington, Kentucky courtroom.

Snelling was released on $100,000 and is now living on “home incarceration with no ankle monitor” with her parents in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

The cheerleader, who has competed on the University of Kentucky’s STUNT team for the past three seasons, was arrested on Saturday, August 30.

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Officers were dispatched to Snelling’s home in Lexington on Wednesday, August 27, responding to a call about an unrespon

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