An East Flatbush man who’d been jailed on a rape charge attacked and almost raped another woman just 10 days after he was released from Rikers Island over coronavirus fears, police sources said.

Police responding to a 911 call found Robert Pondexter, 57 — and his crackpipe — at around 5:45 a.m. Saturday on East New York Avenue, between Schenectady and Troy avenues, the sources allege.

Pondexter had allegedly been walking across the street from the Concern Heights Apartments building, a supportive housing development on the block, when he grabbed the woman by the collar and pulled her into a school parking lot.

He and the victim, 58, were strangers, a police source said.

The woman said Pondexter choked her and forced her to perform oral sex before demanding she take off her pants — but she was able to kick Pondexter away.

Pondexter had been detained in Rikers on a prior rape charge relating to an attack on a different woman, who he had allegedly known and used drugs with.

He was released on April 15 as part of an effort to improve social distancing and reduce the spread of the deadly virus, sources told The Post.

The woman was transported to a hospital and Pondexter was arrested at the scene and faces charges for attempted rape and sexual assault, among others.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has previously said that roughly 2,000 city inmates have been released since mid-March due to the epidemic.

Earlier this month, a convicted murderer cut loose from Rikers Island amid the coronavirus outbreak in the jail was promptly rearrested for bank robbery.

He was one of at least 50 inmates who ended up landing back in jail after being released due to the coronavirus, The Post previously reported.

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