Overview

• Officials say a preliminary autopsy identified the infant as a boy but did not determine cause or manner of death, and further analyses are pending.
• Police discovered the baby on Aug. 27 wrapped in a towel inside a trash bag in a closet near the University of Kentucky campus.
• Laken Snelling, 21, a UK student and STUNT team member, is charged with concealing the birth, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse, and she has pleaded not guilty.
• Snelling posted a $100,000 bond and was released to home incarceration at her parents’ residence in Tennessee, with a preliminary hearing set for Sept. 26.
• Coroner Gary W. Ginn says the inquiry remains open and methodical; an arrest citation states Snelling told officers she gave birth and cleaned up evidence, while separate media claims about broader admissions have not been confirmed by forensic findings.