KY - Laken Snelling, 21, arrested after giving birth and infant was found in closet - Sept 2025

[cattlekate]

All of the onus is being placed on this gal without answers to the outstanding questions: 1) what was the gestational age? 2) did Conner dump her over the Summer? He clearly was cupping her pregnant belly in the June 2025 photo shoot. Unless he is the stupidest male on the planet, he had to have known she was pregnant. 3) how come no one noticed she was pregnant? She lived in Tennessee at her parents’ house during the summer. 4) did she seek OBGYN care?

 

[Megnut]

For those who knew or thought she might be pregnant, perhaps she planned to claim a miscarriage.

She may also have been playing the pregnancy as shared with the new bf, realizing she could never deliver a full term baby and claim him as the father, due to timing.

She may not have had a good plan -- or any plan at all -- and went into labor unexpectedly. She may have been a couple weeks early...

If I had to guess, it was a combination of factors ...

And some really awful decisioning.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

To clarify, if we play this out --

Speculation: she wanted a fairytale and thought she could rewrite some history -- claim the pregnancy was fun her new bf -- gain a kind of intimacy bond --

Had the roommates not entered her room/closet, what would they have thought? If they thought she was pregnant, at a certain point (when she regained her pre-pregnancy shape), they'd have to notice she didn't look pregnant anymore. Would they suspect a miscarriage, deem it hugely personal, and leave it at that?

She could tell the new bf she miscarried, and he'd never know he wasn't the father...

If she intended to terminate this baby's life, how was she going to control her delivery? Convenient that she was home, in her room, laboring over night. But what if she was in class? Somewhere public when her water broke? Babies come when they come.

It's still possible that she was in a sort of deliberate denial, telling herself she'd know what to do when the time came, especially if playing the baby off as her new boyfriend's was part of her (il)logic. Moving forward without a gameplan.

However, I seriously doubt she planned to present a surprise baby to friends and family.

Assuming the new bf knew she was pregnant, it's logical to assume he didn't know how pregnant she was (as in, how far along). If she delivers and discards that baby, she can grossly hide behind the sad grief (that real women experience every day) for "having lost the baby". "Please don't talk about it. It's too painful." Like I said, gross. Gross if she killed her baby and then pretended to grieve a miscarriage. Killing and hiding that baby checked all her boxes.

And none of the baby's.

Signing up for fall classes tells me she never intended for that baby to live.

JMO

 

[abyquinn]

To clarify, if we play this out --

Speculation: she wanted a fairytale and thought she could rewrite some history -- claim the pregnancy was fun her new bf -- gain a kind of intimacy bond --

Had the roommates not entered her room/closet, what would they have thought? If they thought she was pregnant, at a certain point (when she regained her pre-pregnancy shape), they'd have to notice she didn't look pregnant anymore. Would they suspect a miscarriage, deem it hugely personal, and leave it at that?

She could tell the new bf she miscarried, and he'd never know he wasn't the father...

If she intended to terminate this baby's life, how was she going to control her delivery? Convenient that she was home, in her room, laboring over night. But what if she was in class? Somewhere public when her water broke? Babies come when they come.

It's still possible that she was in a sort of deliberate denial, telling herself she'd know what to do when the time came, especially if playing the baby off as her new boyfriend's was part of her (il)logic. Moving forward without a gameplan.

However, I seriously doubt she planned to present a surprise baby to friends and family.

Assuming the new bf knew she was pregnant, it's logical to assume he didn't know how pregnant she was (as in, how far along). If she delivers and discards that baby, she can grossly hide behind the sad grief (that real women experience every day) for "having lost the baby". "Please don't talk about it. It's too painful." Like I said, gross. Gross if she killed her baby and then pretended to grieve a miscarriage. Killing and hiding that baby checked all her boxes.

And none of the baby's.

Signing up for fall classes tells me she never intended for that baby to live.

JMO

Not one person has come forward and said Laken admitted to being pregnant. Every comment I’ve seen people thought she was but didn’t confront her. Pictures taken in June at her summer job in a red & white dress she is obviously in the 3rd trimester with a protruding abdomen and a sway-back. If the boyfriend knew he didn’t share with even 1 person. Because we know how that goes, you tell one person, then they tell one person, pretty soon the whole town knows!

Hollywood style water breaking before contractions start is rare. Sure it could’ve happened but apparently it didn’t. We don’t know how long she was in her room having contractions before finally delivering around 4am. With all the possible complications Laken was very lucky to have been able to walk away after taking a little nap!

Has there been even 1 comment by anyone about Laken grieving or even a little sad? What I read was she thought she looked cute in the red dress she wore for her first court date! I’m thinking her attorney spoke with her about that as she wore a plain black dress & no comments, to her last hearing.

Laken thought she was getting away with this. She made it through a whole pregnancy (however long it was), without telling a soul. She read up on labor & delivery and survived without medical attention. Had she waited a few days post delivery to see a doctor she could’ve claimed she had a miscarriage ‘on the toilet’ & very likely would’ve gotten away with this from a medical standpoint.

Her only problem was the bag in her closet & her ‘nosey roommates’ - she couldn’t risk carrying that bag out in front of them. She had to wait for them to leave so she could walk out unseen & remove all the evidence of her problem forever.

Had her roommates not looked in her closet she planned to continue with her life. Finish her last year of college…Baby, what baby?

MOO