A 13-year-old Jersey City boy followed a girl, 13, into a Pershing Field bathroom Sunday afternoon and attempted to sexually assault her, police said.

The boy, of Prospect Street, was charged on Monday with sexual contact and criminal attempted sex assault after the girl reported the incident at her school.

The girl told school officials that when she went into the bathroom at Pershing Field in the Heights, the boy threw her on the bathroom floor and started groping and kissing her, police reports said. The boy then tried to unzip his pants, police reports said. The report did not say how the girl thwarted the attack.

The boy was arrested later that day and he was released to the custody on his older brother, reports said.

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