A 13-year-old boy is recovering after being raped in the Bronx, police said. It happened at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses on Bruckner Boulevard in the Soundview section.

Police say a man sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy who was taking out the garbage in the Bronx on Wednesday evening.

He went outside to do a simple household chore, but the 13-year-old boy ended up being attacked and sexually assaulted in the Bronx. Now, police are on the hunt for a suspect, and neighbors are on edge about what happened,

A man raped a 13-year-old boy at the Sotomayor Houses in the Bronx Wednesday night, cops said. The victim was taking the garbage out at the NYCHA development on Bruckner Blvd. near Rosedale Ave. in Soundview when the rapist caught him in the stairwell shortly before midnight,