You Could Call It “Corporal Punishment” But In The Legal World It Also Known As “Assault With A Deadly Weapon”

More details emerged over the weekend about the Queens PE coach who pulled a knife on his students. Another child — an autistic boy — has come forward claiming the gym teacher did the same thing to him:

The 17-year-old autistic boy told investigators that Mark Omeltchenko, 45, pointed a knife at his neck and put him in a headlock during the same workout session in which the teacher allegedly threatened two other students, law-enforcement sources said.

The new complaint says the boy — like the two girls, ages 14 and 15, in his Aviation HS class — didn’t want to participate in drills Thursday morning and that set off the teacher, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Richard Brown.

“When the student refused to do the exams, the defendant displayed a knife at the [student] and pointed the knife at the student’s neck while grabbing him and placing him in a headlock,” the spokesman said, reading from the complaint.

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Omeltchenko was reassigned by the Department of Education pending a “corporal-punishment investigation.”