Court documents revealed that Mayor Marty Small Sr. of Atlantic City and his wife were recorded abusing their daughter by her boyfriend as the couple faces charges of endangering the welfare of their child.
The Democrat, 50, and his wife La’Quetta Small, the superintendent of the Atlantic City Public School System, are accused of repeatedly abusing their 16-year-old daughter after she refused to stop seeing a boy they were dating. had a relationship.
According to charging documents obtained by DailyMail.com, from December 2023 to January 2024, they carried out a barrage of abuse, including beating her unconscious with a broom, threatening to “slam her to the ground” on the stairs, punching her her with a belt and hitting her in the mouth.
The Smalls were charged two weeks after the mayor dragged his daughter before the cameras to deny rumors of the crimes, including that he beat her so brutally that she miscarried.
Shocking new details from court documents claim the couple were secretly recorded abusing their teenage daughter by the boyfriend they rejected.
Mayor Marty Small Sr. of Atlantic City and his wife La’Quetta Small allegedly abused their teenage daughter
Mayor Small Sr. with his wife and their two children
Court documents revealed that the teen’s boyfriend had recorded instances of the Smalls abusing their daughter via FaceTime
Both parents have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police raided their home
‘[Her boyfriend] On several occasions during the week of December 10, 2023, during the video chat, he witnessed her father yelling at her and physically abusing her, including strangling her. He described JS’s clothes being torn and her body bruised after the abuse incidents,” the affidavit said.
Video obtained by detectives from the boyfriend’s iPad captured an incident on Jan. 3 in which Marty told his daughter, “I’m going to hurt you.”
The 16-year-old had asked her father to get out of the way so she could go to school, to which Marty replied, “Sit down. I’ll knock your head out.’
“I don’t care where I push you… I’ll knock her down the stairs with one punch!” Come down this line and I’ll grab you by the head and throw you to the ground! Nothing will happen to me,” Marty said.
In another incident, Marty allegedly punched his daughter repeatedly in the legs, causing bruises.
On Jan. 7, an incident was recorded between the 16-year-old where her mother was asked to get off her neck and said her mother punched her in the mouth, according to the affidavit.
La’Quetta said, ‘Who are you telling to leave you, girl! You don’t lead me. You don’t lead me. And I’m going to touch you when I want to touch you.
The teen said her boyfriend once had food delivered to her home and when La’Quetta found out, she threw the food away, dragged her daughter by her hair and then beat her with a belt, leaving welts on her shoulders.
During one incident, La’Quetta allegedly punched her daughter in the chest several times, causing bruises.
The charges were filed because the mayor’s daughter told a school employee about the alleged abuse.
In January, students at Atlantic City High School received mental health training and were asked to circle faces on a card to indicate whether they were happy, neutral or sad.
According to the affidavit, Small’s daughter wrote the word “abuse” on the back of a neutral card and asked to speak to a counselor.
She then told a mental health trainer that she had been knocked unconscious by a broom and described her father as a “big guy,” according to the complaint. She added that she had previously told Director Days-Chapman.
Days-Chapman claimed she had not previously been aware, but told the counselor she would report the alleged abuse to the Department of Child Protection & Permanency.
On January 7, an incident was recorded between the 16-year-old where her mother (left) was asked to get off her neck and said her mother punched her in the mouth.
Video of a Jan. 3 incident showed the teen asking her father to get out of the way so she could go to school, to which Marty (right) responded, “I’ll knock your head out.”
The teen said her boyfriend once had food delivered to her home and when La’Quetta found out, she had dragged her daughter by her hair and then hit her with a belt.
The teen also told a therapist that same day about the abuse in December and January, and police say she told the therapist, “I was very stressed, I cried a lot, I wasn’t mentally stable, I didn’t feel at my best.” ease. I just didn’t feel safe with them.’
When La’Quetta contacted the therapist, she allegedly said her daughter was dealing with personal issues because of a “young man” her parents did not approve of.
Both parents have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree, and Marty Small has also been charged with terroristic threatening in the third degree, aggravated assault in the third degree and simple assault on a disorderly person.
La’Quetta is also charged with simple assault on a disorderly persons, and Atlantic City High School principal Constance Days-Chapman – a close friend of the mayor and his wife – is also charged.
Days-Chapman is accused of failing to notify authorities when the teen told her she was being “emotionally and physically abused” by her parents.
The mayor has refused to resign after he and his wife were indicted even posted photos on social media with the captions “#Unbothered” and “two sides” after news of the scandal broke.
His attorney, Edwin Jacobs, said the case “focuses on private personal matters, including the challenges Mayor Small has faced as a father and his wife, La’Quetta, as a mother raising a teenage child.”
He also denied the allegations regarding ‘improprieties in his’ [client’s] office,” and Small stated, “will continue to faithfully fulfill his duties as mayor.”
Weeks before the charges were filed, the mayor held a bizarre, foul-mouthed press conference following the raid on his home by police, where he insisted that his daughter was not pregnant with twins through a drug dealer, and insisted that he had “nothing to had to hide’. .’
As his daughter stood awkwardly next to him, he listed a series of denials, some of which he has since been charged by Atlantic City prosecutors.
Among the claims, he denied that she was “pregnant with twins, and I beat her up so hard that I killed the babies, and I’m going to be charged with double murder.”
At the press conference, Marty directly denied the claims that he abused his daughter, saying instead that all the accusations were fueled by “political and racial” motives.
“We don’t have any money from the City of Atlantic City. I didn’t steal anything,” he said at the press conference. ‘No, we don’t have any drugs in the house. And we have no weapons.’
After being accused of endangering his daughter’s well-being, Smalls took to social media to share a close-up selfie, with several hashtags including #unbothered and #2sides
La’Quetta, the superintendent of the Atlantic City Public School System, is also charged with simple assault on a disorderly person
“First, let me confirm an undisputed fact: my daughter is not pregnant,” he continued. “My daughter has never been pregnant.”
In response to rumors that Marty said came from an Atlantic City police officer, the mayor doubled down on his denials that his “daughter was beaten up by a drug dealer in the village of Stanley Homes – untrue.”
“My wife was beating the hell out of her, while my son was recording the whole thing, and I was just standing there – out of tune,” he said.
Marty also addressed what he called “the most blatant” of the rumors — that his “daughter was pregnant with twins, and I beat her up so hard that I killed the babies, and I’m going to do that.” being accused of double murder.”
“Could you handle this the same way I do?” he concluded.
The Small’s daughter did not speak at the news conference, which was opened by a Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. quoted.
