Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small signing a form before leaving the courtroom after his arraignment before Judge Bernard DeLury in Mays Landing, N.J. on Oct. 10, 2024. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Jesse Bunch Published Dec. 9, 2025, 5:37 p.m. ET

MAYS LANDING, N.J. — The daughter of Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. took the stand in an Atlantic County courtroom Tuesday morning to testify against him at trial as he stands accused of physically abusing her.

As a Superior Court judge looked on, the teen told jurors her father had beaten and punched her and struck her with a broom.

“He put his hands on me,” she said.

Small, a Democrat, faces charges of child endangerment, aggravated assault, and witness tampering in connection with a series of incide

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