A University of Kentucky cheerleader told a hushed courtroom: ‘I deprived him of oxygen’ as she pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her newborn son.
Laken Snelling, 22, sobbed in a Kentucky court Friday, almost a year to the day after the infant was found stuffed inside a trash bag at a house in Lexington.
Through tears, she told the courtroom: ‘I was under a lot of emotional stress and my baby came unexpectedly.
‘And instead of helping him, I ended his life. And afterwards I cleaned up and didn’t tell anyone.’
It was when Judge Diane Minnifield asked Snelling how she’d killed her
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