I thought I had written about this before, but Google doesn’t turn up a reference. I know, though, that there have been stories circulating for months. Mayor Small and his wife aren’t charged with corruption, which is unusual for an Atlantic City mayor.
They’re charged with beating the s–t out of their teenage daughter.
Prosecutors said that on Jan. 13, 2024, Marty Small Sr. hit his daughter multiple times in the head with a broom, causing her to lose consciousness.
Ten days earlier, they said, Small engaged in an argument with his daughter, grabbing her head and throwing her to the ground, and threatening to throw her down a flight of stairs.
He threatened to “smack the weave out” of her head during the incident, according to prosecutors.
The 50-year-old Democratic mayor also is accused of punching his daughter repeatedly in the legs, causing bruising.
La’Quetta Small, 47, is accused of punching her daughter multiple times on the chest, leaving bruising. In another alleged incident, she is accused of dragging her daughter by the hair and striking her with a belt on her shoulders, leaving marks.
In yet another incident, La’Quetta Small is accused of punching her daughter in the mouth during an argument.
And I wasn’t aware of this previously, but Constance Days-Chapman, the principal of Atlantic City High School, was indicted last week. Charges against her include “official misconduct” and “child endangerment”.
According to the indictment, in December the girl, who was 15 at the time, told Days-Chapman she was suffering continuous headaches from being beaten by her parents in their home.
But instead of telling authorities, Days-Chapman instead told the Smalls.
By the way:
Days-Chapman is a close friend of the Smalls; La’Quetta Smalls is her boss.
I’m sure this is going to be one of my more controversial and divisive opinions, but:
Fark these people. Fark any parent who thinks it is okay to do their kids this way. Fark anybody who’s a mandated reporter that goes to the parents instead of Child Protective Services when a kid tells them their parents are beating them.
Sorry. A bit grumpy today.
I was one of those parents who spanked my kids when they were young. I don’t remember ever spanking them after age 5 or so, as they were well behaved and didn’t need that sort of discipline.
That being said, there is a long distance between a very mild spanking and a heart to heart talk, and beating a teenage girl. That distance seems to be the distance between the mayor’s office and a jail cell.
“That distance seems to be the distance between the mayor’s office and a jail cell.”
^^^^
This.