Laken Snelling Phone Search: Police Allege Evidence of 'Hidden Pregnancy' and Deleted Pics of Cheerleader in Labor

An unsealed tribunal filing is revealing caller specifications astir nan University of Kentucky cheerleader accused of giving commencement to a newborn who was later recovered dormant successful nan closet of her off-campus home.

Laken Snelling, 21, searched a number of pregnancy-related topics connected her telephone anterior to allegedly giving commencement successful her bedroom, according to an affidavit for hunt warrant obtained by PEOPLE.

An introspection of Snelling's telephone by nan Lexington Police Department turned up "several searches including different things pertaining to pregnancy."

That included grounds of "concealed aliases hidden pregnancy," said nan affidavit.

She besides took photos of herself while successful labor, according to nan warrant revenge successful nan lawsuit connected Sept. 4 successful Fayette District Court.

The affidavit alleged that location were "images of her during labor, photos of her doing things mean pregnant women should not beryllium doing" connected nan phone.

The affidavit goes connected to authorities that "the photos that were taken while she was successful labour were deleted successful an effort to hide nan birth," starring investigators to judge different images aliases searches could person besides been removed from nan telephone by Snelling before her arrest.

Snelling was given a Miranda Warning earlier agreeing to speak pinch constabulary astatine nan infirmary on nan time of her arrest, according to nan affidavit, which besides said that she gave commencement connected Aug. 27 astatine 4 a.m. "to a babe which fell onto nan level of her bedroom."

She allegedly told constabulary she stayed awake for 30 minutes aft giving commencement "before falling connected apical of nan babe and going backmost to sleep."

When Snelling woke up aft passing out, she saw that nan newborn was "turning bluish and purple," according to nan affidavit.

Snelling allegedly told constabulary that, believing nan babe to beryllium dead, "she wrapped nan babe up for illustration a burrito and laid adjacent to it connected nan level because it gave her a small comfortableness successful nan moment."

She woke up again astatine 7:30 a.m. erstwhile her siren went off, put nan babe successful a trash bag, cleaned up nan humor aft a ablution and past put her placenta "inside of a zip fastener container and placed it wrong nan achromatic trash bag," according to nan affidavit.

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From there, nan affidavit alleges that Snelling told constabulary she drove to her first people but decided to enactment successful her car, ordered McDonald's, drove to nan University of Kentucky session but did not spell successful and then returned home, wherever constabulary were awaiting to apprehension her conscionable earlier noon.

Snelling besides said that she "didn't deliberation nan babe was breathing aliases alive" erstwhile she said to police, but allegedly told aesculapian unit astatine nan University of Kentucky that nan babe made a "whimper," and she guessed it was alive, according to nan affidavit.

The erstwhile collegiate jock is now backmost astatine her parents' location successful Tennessee aft withdrawing from nan University of Kentucky aft her first tribunal appearance, a spokesperson for nan schoolhouse antecedently told PEOPLE.

Snelling remains connected location arrest.

She appeared successful tribunal again past week where she waived her correct to a preliminary hearing, frankincense sending her lawsuit to nan expansive jury.

Snelling is presently charged pinch maltreatment of a corpse, tampering pinch beingness grounds and concealing nan commencement of an infant.

Those charges could alteration based connected really nan expansive assemblage votes and connected nan results of nan autopsy conducted connected nan newborn by nan aesculapian examiner, who said nan initial results were inconclusive.