Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling performed with the school’s STUNT team just months before authorities found her dead newborn stuffed in a garbage bag inside a closet.
Unearthed footage, posted in April to FloCheer’s YouTube page, shows Snelling and members of the University’s STUNT team facing off against California Baptist University in the National Championship held in Nashville, Tenn.
Snelling, 21, is featured in snippets of the video being held up by team members while performing one of their routines.
The clip shows Snelling propped up by teammates before grabbing another girl, hoisting her into the air, and flipping her over.
In another clip included in the highlight video, she appears beside a teammate as the base of a stunt, catching a fellow team member.
California Baptist University crushed Kentucky 106–75, earning its fourth straight title and third consecutive win over the Wildcats.
The incoming college senior has since dropped out of school and is no longer a member of the STUNT team, the Lexington Herald Leader reported Friday.
The school, which began classes for the new semester on Aug. 25, didn’t reveal when Snelling unenrolled.
Snelling was busted earlier this month after cops in Lexington found her deceased infant “wrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag” in a closet at an off-campus residence, according to a police report.
The newborn was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy has since deemed the baby’s cause of death inconclusive.
She reportedly admitted to police she covered up the birth by cleaning all the evidence and tossing the supplies in the same black trash bag as the newborn.
Snelling was charged with concealing the birth of an infant, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse, charges of which she has since pleaded not guilty.
It remains unclear who reported the alleged crime.
Police say Snelling’s former boyfriend, 21-year-old Izaiah Hall, gave a DNA sample to learn if he is the father of the baby, his father told The Post.
“Lexington police had him come down to the station to give a sample,” Hall’s father, Justin Smith, 45, said, declining to answer any additional questions. “I don’t know anything on this and we don’t know if Izaiah is the father or not.”
Jordan, who once played basketball for King University and Tusculum University in Tennessee, was featured in a handful of posts on the 21-year-old cheerleader’s social media accounts posted in the months before her Aug. 31 arrest.
It’s unclear when they started dating, and Jordan appears to have deleted his social media accounts in the wake of his girlfriend’s headline-making bust.
The new mom was released from jail on a $100,000 bond and then ordered to house arrest at her parents’ home in Tennessee until her next court appearance on Sept. 26.
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