Atlantic City mayor, wife charged with abusing and assaulting teenage daughter
Source: AP
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 Prosecutors 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. LaQuetta Small was additionally charged with three separate counts of simple assault.
The prosecutors 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.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/atlantic-city-mayor-marty-small-child-abuse-e9466f74340ef6094986a78db72b77d2
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)Demovictory9
(32,507 posts)a private family matter, including the challenges that Mayor Small and his wife have dealt with raising a teenage daughter,
We raised a teenage daughter without assaulting her or knocking her unconscious. WTH is this child still in the home?
Yes, I had a 14 year old eye rolling, lip smacking, door slamming, back talking entitled princess. She was a handful. My Mother laughed her ass off.
We talked, we grounded, we explained and we waited patiently for her to mature. Shes in her 50s now. Mother to two sons and a daughter.
Yes, we laughed our asses off from time-to-time, too.😉
GreenWave
(6,834 posts)DET
(1,336 posts)Who does this?
onetexan
(13,083 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,146 posts)that was all on the news here today.
I don't know what it is about Atlantic City but the legal issues of the mayors (and other political figures there) goes back at least a century (see "Boardwalk Empire" ). I don't think one has ever been "clean".
riversedge
(70,483 posts)The mother is no prize either. I see nothing about them seeking outside help-with a parenting group or counselor etc.
...........LaQuetta Small, who is Atlantic Citys superintendent of schools, is accused of punching her daughter multiple times in the chest, leaving bruises, and punching her in the mouth during a separate argument. LaQuetta Small also is accused of dragging her daughter by the hair, and striking her with a belt on her shoulders, leaving marks, according to the prosecutors office............
Cha
(298,139 posts)back their daughter's case against them.
This is seriously bizarre!
Skittles
(153,321 posts)see repukes? it's EASY to call out people who COMMIT CRIMES