{"id":821113,"date":"2026-08-21T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:16:11","slug":"former-uk-student-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-her-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821113\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UK student pleads guilty to manslaughter in her baby&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK student pleads guilty to manslaughter in her baby&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7a293606-e877-4093-ab72-7b498948e3d6_1635101776.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Alex Suckow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A former University of Kentucky student has pleaded guilty in her baby\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/2026\/08\/21\/former-uk-student-pleads-guilty-connection-with-babys-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS affiliate in Lexington, WKYT<\/a>, Laken Snelling pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Snelling was accused of hiding the birth and putting the baby\u2019s body in a closet last year. The baby was discovered by her roommate.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">An autopsy revealed the baby boy was born alive.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">In court, WKYT says Snelling admitted to ending her baby\u2019s life &#8220;instead of helping him,&#8221; and putting his body in a plastic bag.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">She had just pleaded not guilty to manslaughter back in April.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Prosecutors recommended a 10-year sentence for manslaughter, a one-year sentence for abuse of a corpse, a one-year sentence for tampering with physical evidence and a 12-month sentence for concealing the birth of an infant. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UK student pleads guilty to manslaughter in her baby&#8217;s death LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 A former University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-821113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}