Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter.
In his first public comments since prosecutors on Monday charged him and his wife, LaQuetta, the city's superintendent of schools, with physically and verbally abusing their 16-year-old daughter and endangering her welfare, Small said he would not be distracted from his duties."We've all seen news accounts of what's going on with myself personally," he said in a speech at the East Coast Gaming Congress at the Hard Rock casino. "It's just that: personal.
The mayor is accused of repeatedly hitting his daughter in the head with a broom until she blacked out, and repeatedly punching her in the legs, court documents say. Her mother is accused of dragging her by her hair, punching her in the chest and face, and hitting her with a belt.The root of the conflict, according to the court document, was the Smalls' disapproval of their daughter's boyfriend.
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