1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson, 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: a University of Kentucky cheerleader, is arrested after police find 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: her newborn baby dead in a closet, wrapped in a 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: towel stuffed inside a trash back Lake and Snelling, h 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: twenty one, was taken into custody on Sunday, four days earlier. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Officers had been called to her home on Park Avenue 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: in Lexington. They arrived just after ten thirty that morning 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: and found the baby in a closet. The infant was 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: already dead, according to court records. Snelling admitted she had 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: given birth and quote cleaned any evidence, placing all cleaning 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: items used inside of a black bag with the infant. 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: She now faces charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering 13 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. 14 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: The official cause of the baby's death has not been released. 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: The Fayette County Coroner's Office is still reviewing the case. 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: The university confirms Snelling is the baby's mother. Snelling is 17 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: a senior at the University of Kentucky, and she's been 18 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: a member of the school's stunt team for the last 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: three seasons. Stunt is a competitive cheerleading sport focuses on 20 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: skill based routines like stunts, jumps, pyramids, and tumbling. It 21 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: is described by the university as one of the fastest 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: growing female sports in the country. Snelling is originally from 23 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: White Pine, Tennessee. She once held the title of Jefferson 24 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: County's Fairest of the Fair. She was studying interdisciplinary disability 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: studies and often posted about pageants and her dream of 26 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: one day becoming a mother. In June, she shared a 27 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: video listing quote unquote being a mom as one of 28 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: her life goals. Snelling posted a one hundred thousand dollars 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: bond and was released on home incarceration without an ankle monitor. 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: She's required to live with her parents. The Lexington Police 31 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: Department Special Victim Section is still investigating. Anyone with information 32 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: is urged to call eight five nine two five eight 33 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: thirty six hundred or submit an anonymous tip at Bluegrass 34 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: Crimestoppers dot com. Kentucky's Safe Haven Law allows parents to 35 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: surrender newborns up to thirty days old at hospitals, fire stations, 36 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: police stations, or with emergency medical workers without fear of prosecution. 37 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: The law also supports the use of safe Haven Baby boxes, 38 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: secure temperature controlled drop off locations that allow for anonymous 39 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: surrender of infants. These boxes are built into some fire 40 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: stations and hospitals. They alert staff immediately once a baby 41 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: is placed inside. As of this year, there are multiple 42 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: safe Haven Baby boxes across the state of Kentucky, including 43 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: one less than ten minutes from the University of Kentucky 44 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: campus in Lexington. More crime and justice news after this, 45 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: A man is found dead in a pool of blood 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: during the annual Burning Man Festival in Nevada, and police 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: are treating it as a homicide. The body was discovered 48 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: nine fourteen pm Saturday, as the festival's signature wooden effigy 49 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: aka the Man was set ablaze. A participant flagged down 50 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: a deputy in black Rock City and reported the scene. 51 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: The Persian County Sheriff's Office, along with the Bureau of 52 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Land Management, Range and black Rock Rangers, responded and found 53 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: a white man on the ground, describing him as quote 54 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: obviously deceased. Deputy said the man appeared to be between 55 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: thirty five and forty, around six feet two hundred, with 56 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: short brown hair and facial hair. His body was sent 57 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: to the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office. His name has 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,119 Speaker 1: not yet been released. No one has been arrested. As 59 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: the investigation continues. Authorities say the area where the body 60 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: was found will remain under police control until the scene 61 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: is processed. Law enforcement also said they are interviewing witnesses 62 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: and reviewing any available tips. Burning Man organizers said in 63 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: a statement, quote the safety and well being of our 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: community our paramount. Police called the investigation complicated because the 65 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: scene is inside a temporary desert city that will vanish 66 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: within days. They believe the killing was a quote singular crime. 67 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Burning Man typically draws over seventy thousand people each year 68 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: to the Black Rock Desert, about one hundred and ten 69 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,839 Speaker 1: miles north of Reno. The festival is known for its 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: mix of art, fire and survival camping in a remote setting. 71 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: This year's gathering began August twenty fourth and ended Monday. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: A New York City doctor is sentenced to twenty four 73 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: years in prison for drugging and raping unconscious women, including 74 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: hospital patients he was meant to treat. J Alan Chang, 75 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: aged thirty five, once worked as a gastro entrologist at 76 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: New York Presbyterian Queens. He pleaded guilty in June to 77 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: four counts of rape and three counts of sexual abuse. 78 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: He also entered an alfred plea on a separate count, 79 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: claiming any sense, but admitting the state had enough evidence 80 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: to convict. A judge handed down the sentence twenty four years, 81 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: ten years of post release supervision, and lifetime sex offender registration. 82 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: The court heard that Chang abused at least eight women 83 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two. He filmed many 84 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: of his crimes, some taking place in his apartment in 85 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: a story of Queens, others happening in the hospital where 86 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: the women were sedated for treatment. Many victims only learned 87 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: what happened to them after prosecutors showed them videos. One 88 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: woke up in the middle of the assault. A woman 89 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: who found herself in one of Chang's videos first alerted 90 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: the police. That led to a search of Cheng's home. 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,679 Speaker 1: Investigators found thousands of files, including more videos showing Chang 92 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: groping and raping unconscious women, some of them patients, some 93 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: of them women he met online. Some of them have 94 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: not been identified. Authorities also found cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, MDMA, 95 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: LSD and surgical sedatives like propofal and sevofluorine. In court, 96 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Chang said quote, I want to apologize to the victims 97 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: for my heinous crimes, and I will atone for my 98 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: actions for the rest of my life. The judge said, quote, 99 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't believe that twenty four years is enough for 100 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: the crimes you committed. Chang had faced over fifty charges 101 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: at the start of the case. A trial could have 102 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: resulted in a life sentence, but prosecutors said they accepted 103 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: a plea to protect victims from having to relive the assaults. 104 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: In court, one prosecutor said, quote, I saw the horror 105 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: on their faces, the confusion, and saw their ability to 106 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: trust shatter. New York Presbyterian said in a state the 107 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: crimes committed by this individual are heinous, despicable, and a 108 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: fundamental betrayal of our mission and the patient's trust. Victims 109 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: lawyers said the hospital bear some blame. Civil lawsuits against 110 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: both Chang and New York Presbyterian are ongoing. For the 111 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly update 112 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: on your favorite podcast app. But this Crime Alert, I'm 113 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: Drew Nelson.