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Utah man facing multiple child sex abuse charges uses a razor to mutilate himself in jail

A Grantsville man who is facing two dozen felony charges after he allegedly sexually abused several children — including an autistic boy — is back in the Tooele County jail after he “mutilated” himself with a razor blade.

Mark A. Swan, 48, “self-mutilated” on Sunday with a razor that had been “secreted” into his jail cell, said Tooele County Sheriff's Lt. Ray Clinton. “He received treatment for his wounds at a local hospital and returned to the Tooele County Detention Center.”

Clinton did not say how the razor was smuggled into the jail, and he did not specify what wounds Swan inflicted on himself, citing medical privacy laws.