LITHONIA WOMAN CONVICTED FOR DEPRIVING DISABLED ADULTS, HOUSING THEM IN HORRIFIC CONDITIONS

Monday, October 6, 2025

State v. Crystal Nasir

Decatur, Ga.- DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announces a conviction by jury trial in the case of a Lithonia woman accused of housing disabled adults in unsanitary conditions and depriving them of proper care.

On Thursday, October 3, 2025, a jury found Crystal Nasir, 43, guilty of Deprivation of Essential Services to Disabled Adults and Exploitation of a Disabled Adult in connection with the January 2022 discovery of the horrific state of the unlicensed care home Nasir owned and operated.

According to the investigation, a severely disabled 38-year-old man called police on December 28, 2021, to report that he was living in a house with several other people in terrible conditions. He reported that he stayed in the basement of the home without heat or air conditioning, and that the basement was covered in sewage from a toilet that had overflowed with human waste. The man also explained that he had not been given his prescription medication in quite some time.

On January 4, 2022, police executed a search warrant for the house on Castle Downs Trace in Lithonia, which belonged to Defendant Nasir. Officers found deplorable conditions throughout the living areas of the home. Nasir was breeding dogs at the house, and there were dog feces and dirt caked on to the floors, the walls, and the stairs inside. Law enforcement noticed residents were walking around the home with feces caked to the bottoms of their shoes or their bare feet.

Many of the disabled adults in the home were living in rooms with raw mattresses or with soiled bedding and there was feces in the floors of their rooms. There was also mold found growing on the walls and a bedbug infestation in one of their rooms.

In the basement of the home, there was standing water on the floors, mold growing on the walls, a rat infestation and no heating unit was present in the bedrooms. Investigators noted the temperature of the basement was as cold as it was outside, and the residents in the basement were sleeping on raw mattresses or with inadequate blankets. They also found the bathroom was out of order, covered in human waste, and the toilet had overflowed onto the floors and left raw sewage throughout the living area of the basement. Many of the basement residents slept in the room next to this bathroom. Investigators also found that the residents were using a bucket as a toilet near the downstairs bathroom. One of the residents told law enforcement that the basement had been in that condition for months, and he had photos of the bathroom in an even worse state taken seven days before officers investigated the home.

Defendant Nasir was also found to be living in the home, and her full-time job was to care for the home and its residents. Nasir's room was the cleanest in the house, and her bathroom was well maintained. Law enforcement discovered Nasir had residents' medications in her room, and that she was keeping the residents' personal papers, mail, and financial records in her bedroom and home office.

Officers located five disabled adults who were paying to live in the house, including a 44-year-old woman who the investigation revealed had been tasked with cleaning the house and cooking food for herself and the other residents every day. It was determined the woman had severe mental health issues and was not paid for her years of work inside the house.

Immediately following the guilty verdicts, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams sentenced Defendant Nasir to 15 years to serve 10 in confinement with the balance on probation.

The case, assigned to the Crimes Against Elder Persons and Adults with Disabilities Unit, was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Laura Alford with assistance from Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Franklin Engram, District Attorney Investigator Charles Maupin, and Victim Advocate Tina Williamson. Former DeKalb County Police Department Detective Aria Lynch, who is now a DA's Office Investigator, led the initial investigation.