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Former University of Kentucky student-athlete Laken Snelling was seen performing with her school's STUNT team months before detectives say they found her newborn infant inside a closet wrapped in a trash bag.

Snelling, 21, was taken into custody on Aug. 31 by Lexington Police Department officers who were responding to a call regarding an unresponsive infant, officials said. Police said the infant was "pronounced deceased at the scene," adding that Snelling was the infant's mother.

An autopsy on the male infant was inconclusive, the Fayette County Coroner's Office, noting that extensive microscopic analysis would be needed.

Snelling was charged with tampering with physical evidence, concealing the birth of an infant and

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