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5-year-old Utah boy abused and malnourished, might not survive, police and documents say

A Salt Lake County boy “may be incompatible with life" after what police and jail records describe as child abuse that might have gone on for days or weeks.

The 5-year-old is identified in a Salt Lake County jail booking document only by the initials T.S. He was unconscious and unresponsive when his mother and her fiancé took him to Primary Children’s Hospital on Thursday, according to the Unified Police Department.

A booking document filed with the jail says the boy’s injuries were not consistent with what the adults told hospital staff had happened. The mother, Jordan Kay Wills, 26, and her fiancé, John M.