Infant burns to death from hair dryer when mom claiming she was trying to warm him passes out: Cops

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.