Dad beats daughter in web class

A Lower East Side man repeatedly socked his young daughter in the face while she was in an online class, the Daily News has learned.

Grant Martin, 58, accused his 12-year-old daughter of cheating as he sat next to her in their apartment in the Baruch Houses, just before 4 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

As the teacher watched in horror, Martin, 58, exploded with rage and punched the girl in the head and face, cops said.

“All that I remember clearly is that I was in the middle of class. My dad got mad because I wasn’t paying attention and he hit me on camera,” the girl told The News. “I’m really upset. I don’t recall this happening since I was in kindergarten. He doesn’t do this regularly.”

The educator immediately called police.

The girl’s mother, Tracy Stride, 46, was taking her mom for a medical appointment and was not home. She said she was stunned by Martin’s behavior. “I’ve known him for over 20 years, and the man that he was yesterday, I’ve never seen that person before,” she said.

Stride said she was told Martin became incensed because their daughter wasn’t paying attention in class and looked up answers to a math problem on Google.

Martin was arrested at his home on Baruch Drive near E. Houston St. and is charged with acting in manner injurious to a child, assault and harassment.

“I was floored because I came home and not even an hour later, the cops were at my home arresting him,” Stride said.

Martin has 28 prior arrests dating back to 1982, police said, and three stints in state prison.

In 2011, he was released after serving almost three years for a burglary in Manhattan. He also spent three years behind bars for attempted drug sales in Queens before he completed his sentence in 1997.

Under the name Albert Martin, he served just under four years for burglary before getting out in 1987.

Prior to Tuesday’s arrest, he was last busted in 2013 for punching a 44-year-old man in Manhattan.