In a significant development, former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been mandated to wear an ankle monitor while she awaits formal charges. Snelling is accused of concealing the body of her newborn in a closet at an off-campus residence.

The 21-year-old, already under house arrest, was photographed in a relaxed state, without makeup and dressed in pajamas, as she moved between the homes of her divorced parents earlier this month. These exclusive images were published by the Daily Mail.

On Wednesday, the judge overseeing her case imposed an additional condition of electronic monitoring, which Snelling will undergo at her father’s residence in Jefferson County, Tennessee, as reported by Fox 56.

Snelling has been instructed to contact pretrial services by the upcoming Wednesday to arrange for the fitting of the monitoring device, as detailed by WTVQ.

The arrest of the once-celebrated cheerleader occurred on August 30 after authorities discovered the remains of a newborn boy, wrapped in a trash bag and towel, hidden in her bedroom closet at her college home in Lexington, Kentucky.

Investigators believe Snelling gave birth during the early hours of August 27, and it is suspected that the infant was alive at birth.

Snelling is now facing charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.

She could also face a murder charge depending on the outcome of an autopsy report on her baby.

The Fayette County Coroner said in a statement that additional testing is needed to determine the cause of the infant’s death after the results from the initial autopsy proved to be inconclusive.  

Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor as she awaits formal charges for allegedly hiding her newborn’s body in an off-campus house

Laken Snelling, 21, allegedly gave birth to a baby boy on August 27 before she tried to conceal the infant’s death

Prosecutors have alleged that Snelling gave birth at around 4am on August 27, when her roommates said they heard loud noises coming from her bedroom.

Speaking to cops days later, Snelling said she was awake for about half an hour following childbirth before she passed out and fell asleep on top of the infant, according to an affidavit.

When she awoke, Snelling allegedly said she saw the baby was ‘turning blue and purple,’ leading her to believe the child was dead.

At that point, she said she wrapped the youngster up ‘like a burrito and laid it on the floor next to her because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’

She then apparently fell asleep again, and woke up to her alarm at 7.30am – at which point she allegedly placed the baby in a towel and the placenta in a black trash bag, which she placed in her closet.

When she then saw her roommates, Snelling told them the loud noises they heard were simply her passing out and falling.

She also told them she was going to a doctor because ‘she had not eaten and had not been feeling well,’ according to the affidavit.

Snelling did go to a student clinic in the aftermath, but did not go inside, the document claimed.

Instead, it says, she left her apartment, skipped her 9.30am class, sat in her car, ordered food on the McDonald’s app and picked it up.

While she was gone, her roommates – who were said to have been suspicious of the pregnancy Snelling was hiding and the noises overnight – went into her room and found a ‘blood-soaked towel on the floor and a plastic bag containing evidence of childbirth,’ prosecutors allege. 

Snelling is now facing charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant

The infant was found inside the closet of Snelling’s off-campus home

When one of the roommates then made the gruesome discovery, she reported to police that the infant was ‘cold to the touch.’

By the time Snelling returned to her college home, she was detained by police.

As officers continued to investigate in the days that followed, they executed a search warrant on Snelling’s phone and requested access to her Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and a shared iCloud account with her mother.

The probe revealed that Snelling had made a number of Internet searches ‘including different things pertaining to pregnancy, images of her during labor, photos of her doing things ordinary pregnant woman should not be doing and a concealed or hidden pregnancy,’ the affidavit says.

‘Other items could have also been deleted in an attempt to hide any evidence of the pregnancy, birth and newborn baby,’ Lexington police note, including information related to ‘the birth of the full-term baby.’

Authorities also found that her phone contained ‘images of her during labor,’ which she allegedly ‘deleted in an attempt to hide the birth.’ 

Photos from April shows Snelling performing with UK’s STUNT team with what appears to be a pregnant bump on her stomach

She posted photos in June of her with her then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24

Meanwhile, Snelling is said to have told staff at the University of Kentucky Labor and Delivery Unit that her baby had shown ‘a little bit of fetal movement’ and made a ‘whimper,’ and that she ‘guessed’ he was alive at birth.

When authorities finally found the infant’s body inside her closet, they also noted he ‘appeared to be full-term.’

It is unclear whether Snelling, who has since dropped out of school, had told anyone she was pregnant.

However, unearthed footage from April shows Snelling performing with UK’s STUNT team with what appears to be a pregnancy bump.

Snelling also posted images in June where her then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24, where she seemed to cover her front.

But Daily Mail has also revealed Snelling was previously in a relationship with college quarterback Izaiah Hall who underwent a DNA test to determine whether the baby was his.

Snelling was initially booked into jail upon her arrest, but was released on a $100,000 surety bond, before a judge ruled that she had to remain under house arrest at her parents’ homes. 

She has pleaded not guilty to the crimes.