Inset: Morgan Creel (Coweta County Sheriff). Background: Home in Newnan, Georgia, where Creel’s son died from burns by a hair dryer, cops said (Google Maps).
A Georgia grand jury earlier this month indicted a mother for second-degree murder and cruelty to children after her infant son died from being burned by a hair dryer.
The Coweta Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for cardiac arrest involving an infant around 2:30 p.m. Nov. 9, 2023, to a home on Kildare Court in Newnan, some 40 miles southeast of Atlanta, according to an incident report obtained by Law&Crime. A deputy entered the home and spotted the mother, 31-year-old Morgan Creel, standing at the back door. She told deputies her son, later identified as Carsynn Creel, was in the back bedroom. The deputy found the boy unresponsive with his onesie partially pulled down.
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As the deputy performed CPR on Carsynn he noticed the boy “appeared severely burnt as well as discolored on the right side of his body,” the affidavit said. Creel allegedly said she was trying to warm the boy’s feet so she turned on a hair dryer. But then she fell asleep. When she awoke, her son was unresponsive and she called 911.
An indictment obtained by Atlanta Fox affiliate WAGA says Creel put her son through “cruel and excessive physical and mental pain by leaving a blow dryer on and blowing heated air near said child while said accused was passed out under the influence of a controlled substance.” In the incident report, investigators said they found a marijuana smoking apparatus on the back porch.
In October, nearly a year after her son’s death, Creel was arrested for driving under the influence while out on bond, WAGA reported. She was reportedly weaving in and out of traffic. When cops pulled Creel over, she allegedly blamed her erratic driving on sneezing. Creel was apparently so intoxicated that cops had to stop sobriety tests for her safety. Deputies then took her into custody.
Creel was booked into the Coweta County Jail on Jan. 24. She was not listed as an inmate at the jail as of Thursday morning. It’s unclear if she has a lawyer.
