ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – The mayor of Atlantic City, already accused of abusing his teenage daughter, now faces a new accusation that he asked her to lie about how she suffered a head injury.

Marty Small Sr., 50, was charged Monday with tampering with witnesses regarding the girl he and his wife, La’Quetta (the school principal of a coastal New Jersey gambling resort), were previously accused of assault and harassment.

The Atlantic County District Attorney’s Office said Democrat Marty Small asked his daughter to “twist” her statement to investigators. Allegation that he treated her badly Sometimes in December and January.

Specifically, the mayor is accused of asking his daughter to falsely state that she suffered a head injury when she tripped and fell in her room.

Small’s attorney, Edwin Jacobs, called the latest accusation “complete nonsense” and added that Small wanted his daughter to tell the truth about what happened.

“When a parent encourages their child to be truthful and honest in their statements to investigators, that parent is not tampering with witnesses,” he said in a statement Wednesday. “This parent is doing what a good, responsible parent should do. That’s exactly what Marty Small did.”

Jacobs called the accusation “yet another effort by the prosecution to second-guess my client’s parenting and disrupt his relationship with his daughter.”

The attorney did not say whether the teen still lives at home with his parents. Small said he did so as recently as last month.

Prosecutors allege Small asked her daughter to contradict her previous claim of abuse, even though she knew she would be charged with the original child abuse charge. The alleged request was made two days before the grand jury Marty and La’Quetta blamed Small.

They say both parents occasionally hit and emotionally abused the 15-16-year-old girl last winter. The couple denies the allegations.

Prosecutors said Marty Small repeatedly hit his daughter’s head with a broom on Jan. 13, causing her to lose consciousness. Ten days earlier, they said, Small had argued with his daughter, grabbed her head, threw her to the ground and threatened to throw her down the stairs. The mayor is also accused of punching his daughter’s legs, causing bruising.

La’Quetta Small, 47, is accused of punching her daughter in the chest multiple times, leaving her with a bruise. It is also claimed that he dragged his daughter by her hair and hit her shoulders with a belt, leaving marks.

Couple He did not admit his guilt to last month’s actual wages. A court date has been set for Dec. 3 on Marty Small’s witness tampering charge.