Laken Snelling, a University of Kentucky cheerleader accused of abandoning her newborn, was not home when authorities discovered the infant’s body in the closet of a residence just off campus.

Authorities were called to the house in Lexington the morning of Aug. 27, after they received an emergency call from an unidentified witness about an unresponsive baby.

“Complainant just found a dead baby in a closet,” the caller told dispatchers, according to a transcript seen by the Lexington Herald Leader. “It is cold to the touch.”

When officers arrived on the scene around 10:35 a.m., they discovered the infant wrapped in a towel inside a trash bag in the closet, along with cleaning supplies. How exactly the baby boy died remains unclear nearly a month later. The Fayette County Coroner

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