Atlantic City mayor indicted and accused of asking daughter to retract claims that he abused her.
The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was charged with witness tampering this week after he was accused of asking his daughter to “twist up” her previous abuse allegations against him to the police, prosecutors said.
An Atlantic County grand jury indicted Mayor Marty Small Sr., 50, on Tuesday, County Prosecutor William Reynolds' office said in a news release .
Small and his wife, La’Quetta Small, the superintendent of Atlantic City Public Schools, were indicted in September on charges tied to endangering the welfare of their teenage daughter. The mayor was also indicted on charges of making terroristic threats and aggravated assault. The couple pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Prosecutors alleged Wednesday that while those charges were pending, Small asked his daughter in September to reverse her previous abuse claims against him, "specifically by asking her to state that she tripped and fell in her room when her head was injured."
Authorities allege that Small made the request because of accusations that on Jan. 13 he struck his daughter in the head repeatedly with a broom, resulting in her losing consciousness.
Small blasted the new indictment in a statement Wednesday, saying his attorney Edwin Jacobs would handle any further comments.
"A bad prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich and this is what happened here," Small said in a statement. "We look forward to beating this bulls--- case, Eddie Jacobs will do the rest of the talking for me."
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