The steps of former University of Kentucky competitive cheerleader Laken Snelling have been traced after she allegedly gave birth and hid the infant’s body in her closet.

Snelling, 21, gave birth in the early morning hours of August 27, according to police records obtained by LEX18.

The former cheerleader told police she passed out after giving birth, falling on top of the baby. When she woke up, she saw the infant had turned “blue and purple.”

After wrapping the baby in a towel, believing it was dead, Snelling went back to sleep and woke up to a 7:30 a.m. alarm, when she then placed the baby and the placenta in a black trash bag in her closet.

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Around 8:40 a.m., Snelling told her roommates that she was going

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