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- Democratic Mayor Marty Small of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was caught connected video verbally and physically abusing his 16-year-old girl by her boyfriend, of whom he and his wife, La'Quetta, disapproved, according to an affidavit.
- The Smalls are charged pinch kid endangerment and battle complete their alleged mistreatment of nan teenager.
- "I'm gonna wounded you," Small allegedly threatened connected nan recorded call. "Tell them. I don't care. What they gonna do to me? I'll smack that weave retired ya head. Nothing is gonna hap to me!"
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his woman disapproved of their teenage daughter's boyfriend, who secretly recorded an incident of him allegedly physically and verbally assaulting nan woman complete a video chat, according to an affidavit revenge by prosecutors.
Small and his woman LaQuetta, Atlantic City's superintendent of schools, were charged Monday pinch child endangerment and assault regarding interactions successful December and January pinch their daughter, who is now 16.
The politician is accused of many times hitting his girl successful nan caput pinch a broom until she blacked out, and many times punching her successful nan legs. Her mother is accused of dragging her by her hair, punching her successful nan thorax and face, and hitting her pinch a belt.
ATLANTIC CITY MAYOR, WIFE CHARGED WITH ABUSING, ASSAULTING TEENAGE DAUGHTER: 'SMACK THE WEAVE OUT OF HER HEAD'
"Mayor Small and Superintendent LaQuetta Small are wholly guiltless of immoderate wrongdoing and will yet beryllium vindicated," their lawyer Ed Jacobs said successful a connection Tuesday. "These complaints attraction exclusively connected backstage family matters, fundamentally attempting to second-guess parental decisions."
He said nan Smalls "remain a adjacent and loving and intact family," adding nan politician intends to proceed serving successful office.
An affidavit revenge by nan Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office quotes nan girl, whose sanction The Associated Press is not publishing because she is nan alleged unfortunate of a crime, arsenic telling kid use authorities that her parents disapproved of her boyfriend. LaQuetta Small is besides quoted arsenic telling nan aforesaid point to a therapist who was made disposable to nan woman aft she reported maltreatment to schoolhouse personnel.
The affidavit was first reported by nan web tract breakingac.com.
It includes a transcript of speech betwixt nan Smalls and their girl that were recorded by compartment phones aliases laptops, apparently without nan parents' knowledge.
But it besides includes assertions that nan woman told authorities kid use investigators that she made up nan allegations because she was angry astatine her parents. These claims were contradicted successful nan affidavit by matter messages she sent to friends claiming she really was being abused and did not consciousness safe astatine home.
Several recordings impact an incident from Jan. 3 betwixt Marty Small and his daughter, while she was talking to her fellow connected a video chat.
"I'm scared," nan woman whispers to her boyfriend, according to nan transcript.
Using nan girl's name, nan politician says, "Don't make maine wounded you."
She replies, "Hurt me, that's each you do!"
The politician orders his girl to beryllium down, and she tells him to extremity pushing her.
"I'm gonna wounded you," he says, threatening to propulsion her down a staircase. "Tell them. I don't care. What they gonna do to me? I'll smack that weave retired ya head. Nothing is gonna hap to me!"
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small speaks astatine an arena successful Atlantic City, N.J., connected Feb. 2, 2024. On April 15, 2024, Small and his woman were charged pinch abusing their teenage daughter, a business their lawyer described arsenic a backstage family matter. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
The transcript besides references an incident connected Jan. 7 incident betwixt nan woman and her mother that was witnessed by her grandma successful which nan teen yells astatine her mother to get disconnected her and extremity hitting her.
"A small punch successful nan oculus ain't gonna extremity her," nan grandma says.
The affidavit besides contains messages from nan woman to friends asking if she tin enactment pinch them, saying she does not consciousness safe astatine home, and that her bags are packed.
"I've been mentally, emotionally, verbally and physically abused, and it's a lot," she wrote. "I'm overwhelmed and I support crying each night."
She sought curen astatine a infirmary for a caput wounded 3 days aft her begetter allegedly deed her pinch nan broom, telling a caregiver she had deed her caput connected a model and mislaid consciousness, a declare pinch which her begetter agreed, according to nan affidavit.
But nan affidavit besides includes quotes from nan woman to region detectives and investigators pinch nan authorities kid use agency, nan Division of Child Protection and Permanency, successful which she claims to person fabricated nan claims against her parents.
In a Jan. 25 question and reply astatine Atlantic City High School, nan woman told detectives that she "told DCP&P she made nan allegations up and she was not physically assaulted," according to nan affidavit.
The woman told detectives she wanted to meet friends astatine a seafood edifice a fewer weeks earlier but her parents would not let it.
"She stated she made nan allegations up because of this and stated nary beingness maltreatment occurred," nan affidavit read. The woman "was asked if she was ever deed by her parents and she stated no."
The Smalls person a May 15 first tribunal date.
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Monday night, he posted a image of himself pinch nan hashtags "unbothered" and "God sewage us."
