Atlantic City mayor and wife charged with abusing and assaulting teenage daughter
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife were charged Monday with abusing and assaulting their teenage daughter on multiple occasions, including hitting her in the head with a broom and knocking her unconscious.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said it filed charges against both parents of endangering the welfare of a child.
Marty Small also was charged with making terroristic threats; aggravated assault, and simple assault. La’Quetta Small was additionally charged with three separate counts of simple assault.
The prosecutor’s office said in a news release that “the defendants physically and emotionally abused their 15/16-year-old-daughter on multiple occasions” in December 2023 and January 2024.
It said that in one incident, Marty Small is alleged to have hit his daughter multiple times in the head with a broom, causing her to lose consciousness. He also is accused of punching his daughter in the legs multiple times, leaving bruises, and threatening to throw her down a staircase and “smack the weave out of her head,” the release said.
Related articles
A windswept Natalie Portman and John Krasinski film a high
Natalie Portman was pictured being spun around on a high-speed drive alongside John Krasinski in Liv2024-05-18Bride slammed for 'beige wedding' after telling guests what colours they could wear to ceremony
A bride has been slammed for dictating what colours guests should wear for her special day, branding2024-05-18Revealed: Harry Styles superfans face 80
Harry Styles 'superfans' applying for jobs as tour guides in his home town face a tough recruitment2024-05-18Nearly 80 die in 3 weeks at Myanmar refugee camps: aid workers — Radio Free Asia
Nearly 80 people at refugee camps in western Myanmar have died in only three weeks due to poor livin2024-05-18Damaged air valve in field of cattle is blamed as the source of Devon's parasite outbreak
An outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite in south Devon water supplies has been traced back to a d2024-05-18- TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its adver2024-05-18
atest comment