Fourth Sexual Assault Now Reported In Jersey City In Past Weekend

JERSEY CITY, NJ — There have now been four reported sexual assaults that took place in Jersey City over the past weekend, June 29 - July 1, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's office.

It is still unknown if any of the sex assaults are related, and they are varying in the details of where and how they occurred. One occurred in a hotel in downtown Jersey City. Another occurred in the city's Greenville neighborhood, where the victim, a woman, told police she initially met a man to have consensual sex, but they then got into an argument that ended in him attacking and sexually assaulting her.

But they all occurred in one single weekend, this past Saturday, June 29 through Monday, July 1. And two of them occurred after the female victims accepted rides from men they did not know. The prosecutor's office declined to answer if the women used a ride-sharing service in those two cases.

Here are all four sex assaults in Jersey City so far, with the most recently-occurring ones listed first:

1. On Monday, July 1 shortly after 2:40 a.m., Jersey City police responded to a report of sexual assault in the area of Westside Avenue and Union Street in Jersey City. The woman, 27, from Jersey City, told police she made contact with a man on Westside Avenue who offered to give her a ride home. After following him on foot to an unknown area, the man allegedly used a knife to hold her down and sexually assault her. That woman was taken by EMS to Jersey City Medical Center for medical attention.

2. On Monday, July 1 shortly after 1:00 a.m., Jersey City police were alerted to an injured woman in the area of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Stevens Avenue. The woman, a 25-year-old from Bayonne, had been cut on her neck and hand. The woman told police that she and the alleged male suspect had agreed to have consensual sex at an unknown location in Jersey City. When they met, they had an argument, which led to the alleged sexual assault and her being stabbed.

3. On Saturday, June 29 at approximately 8:50 a.m., Jersey City police were called to a home in Jersey City on a report of a sexual assault. At the home, the woman, 25, said that she had been sexually assaulted shortly after 7:15 a.m. that morning. She said the attack happened at an unknown location in Jersey City after accepting a ride from an unknown man as she traveled from Hoboken back to her apartment.

4. On Saturday, June 29 shortly after 4:00 a.m., police were called for a reported sexual assault that occurred at the Courtyard by Marriott, located at 540 Washington Blvd. in Jersey City. Police found a 21-year-old woman from Jersey City who reported that she was sexually assaulted a short time after 2:30 a.m. by an unknown man she met earlier that night, Friday night, in Newark.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit, along with Jersey City police, is investigating all four sex assaults.

No arrests have been made in any of the four incidents.