Crime & Safety
Jersey City Man Charged With Sexual Assault Of 15-Year-Old
The 21-yeae-ol met the girl while working in a corner store in her neighborhood.
JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Jersey City man was arrested and charged on Tuesday for the sexual assault of a teenage girl.
The 21-year-old Jersey City man was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal sexual contact. The man was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City just before 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
According to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, the sexual assaults happened after the man met the teen while working in a corner store near the victim’s home in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood. The two then went to Berry Lane Park on several occasions where the assaults happened, according to the HCPO.
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Prosecutor Suarez credited the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the
Jersey City Police Department for the investigation and arrest.
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