Mom & son scared after train attack

A Bronx soccer mom, bloodied by a blow to the head with a coinfilled sock on the No. 6 train last week, was steering clear of the subways as her fugitive attacker remained on the street.

Eva Benitez recounted the terrifying and unprovoked assault at 3:45 p.m. last Thursday as she rode with her 8-year-old son, Joshua, on the downtown train, playing Candy Crush as the little boy sat in the next seat. The two were headed to the boy’s soccer practice.

“I don’t know what happened, because we were on the train and [the attacker] was, like, fighting with his girlfriend,” said Benitez, 45, speaking Wednesday to the Daily News after becoming another victim of the recent surge in subway crime.

The angry man then walked over, kicked her in the leg and demanded to know why Benitez was recording him with her phone.

As the victim replied, “I’m not,” the assailant cracked Benitez in the head with the coin-filled sock while trying to snatch her phone, cops said. Blood from a wound (inset) that needed four stitches to close began leaking down her face as her attacker bolted from the train once it stopped at the Hunts Point Ave. station.

“When he hit her on the head, I wasn’t that scared,” said little Joshua. “But when she touched her head and saw the blood, that’s when I started to get scared, because there was so much blood.”

Benitez was taken to Lincoln Hospital for treatment. But the rattled mother and son avoided the subway for the next week, as Joshua skipped soccer practice. The family used taxis to travel over the past weekend rather than get back aboard mass transit. Authorities haven’t yet made an arrest in the assault.

“We’re feeling good now, but police don’t know where he lives and they are still working,” said Joshua. Police released photos of the suspect leaving through a turnstile after the attack.

Mother and son hope to take the subway together Thursday for Joshua’s next practice.

“I’m fine,” insisted Benitez.