911 Call from Kentucky Cheerleader’s Home Reveals Details About Discovery of Deceased Baby

University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling’s newborn had been dead for hours when someone discovered the tiny body inside a closet in her off-campus home, according to newly released information from authorities.

On Aug. 27, at 10:34 a.m., a Lexington police dispatcher received a 911 call about the discovery of a newborn wrapped in a towel inside a trash bag in the closet of an off-campus home on Park Ave., according to Lexington Police Department call dispatch records.

“Complainant just found a dead baby in a closet,” the dispatcher disclosed, per the incident report obtained by Fox56 and the Lexington Herald Leader.  “It is cold to the touch.”

The temperature of the body indicates that the newborn had been dead for at least three to four hours, according to the NIH. After the first hour after death, the body generally begins to cool by one to one-and-a-half degrees per hour, according to the American Military University.

Information including the caller and their phone number were redacted from the call dispatch records, per the Lexington Herald Leader.

The newborn was “wrapped in a towel inside of a black trash bag,” according to the arrest citation reviewed by PEOPLE, and authorities identified Snelling as the biological mother of the baby boy.

Snelling, who was on the STUNT competitive cheer team at the University of Kentucky, wasn’t home when the 911 call was placed and police, EMTs and fire department personnel arrived, according to the report. 

Officers found her about five minutes away from the home shortly after, the report states. She was taken to police headquarters and asked to be “checked out” medically, per the report.

Snelling admitted to giving birth when interviewed by officers, and to cleaning up all evidence and throwing it in the trash bag, “including the infant, who was wrapped in a towel,” the report alleges.

On Sunday, Aug. 31, Laken Snelling, 21, was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant, the Lexington Police Department said in a news release.

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After her arrest, Snelling was held at the Fayette County Detention Center, but she was released on Sept. 2 on a $100,000 bond, according to court documents reviewed by PEOPLE.

Snelling appeared in court on Tuesday, Sept. 2, where she pleaded not guilty, KBTX reports.

On Wednesday, Sept. 3, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said that the results of a preliminary autopsy yielded inconclusive findings for the baby’s cause of death.

The death investigation remains ongoing “pending the results of these studies,” he said.

Given that, questions remain about when she gave birth, if she had a miscarriage, if the baby was born alive or stillborn and if she knew she was pregnant.

Snelling was placed on house arrest at her parents’ home in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where she remains.

Her attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.