Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. faces new charges after allegedly asking his daughter to lie about a head injury sustained during a domestic abuse incident.
Atlantic City's mayor, already accused of abusing his teenage daughter, now faces a new charge that he asked her to lie about how she sustained a head injury. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. has been indicted on a witness tampering charge for allegedly asking his daughter to recant claims she made to law enforcement officials that he abused her, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The indictment asserts that in September 2024, Small asked her to do him a favor and 'twist up' the story she told police about alleged abuse. Small, 50, is accused of asking his daughter to claim that a head injury she sustained on Jan. 13 occurred when she tripped and fell in her bedroom. The mayor was previously charged with striking her several times in the head with a broom during that incident, causing her to lose consciousness. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. denies he abused his daughter. He has called the situation a private family matter that does not rise to the level of a crime. On Wednesday, his attorney, Edwin Jacobs, called the indictment 'another clumsy effort by the county prosecutor to intrude into the private and confidential conversations among members of Marty Small's family.' 'It proves the old saying of many lawyers, judges and prosecutors that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich,' Jacobs said. The mayor's wife, La'Quetta Small, who is the city's superintendent of schools, is charged with child endangerment related to the original case. She, too, denies any wrongdoing. The couple appeared in court on Oct. 10 and pleaded not guilty to the original charges. Both are charged with child endangerment, and Marty Small is also charged with assault and making terroristic threat
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