There is an escaped String JSON with some escaped chars (“Bob”) inside:

{"id":"1","name":"cat with "Bob" name"}

It’s necessary to correctly unescape it (escaping inside text should remain):

{"id":"1","name":"cat with "Bob" name"}

Could you advise, please, how to do this?

I’ve tried:

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonStringEscaped); // 1
StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava(jsonStringEscaped) // 2

but they excape everything, so non-valid JSON is received:

{"id":"1","name":"cat with "Bob" name"}