diff --git a/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocation.java b/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocation.java
index 1ded8240a..7fa564be0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocation.java
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
  */
 package com.networknt.schema;
 
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 /**
@@ -230,7 +233,21 @@ public static JsonNodePath of(String fragmentString) {
                 if (index != -1) {
                     fragment = fragment.append(index);
                 } else {
-                    fragment = fragment.append(fragmentPart.toString());
+                    String fragmentPartString = fragmentPart.toString();
+                    if (PathType.JSON_POINTER.equals(fragment.getPathType())) {
+                        if (fragmentPartString.contains("~")) {
+                            fragmentPartString = fragmentPartString.replace("~1", "/");
+                            fragmentPartString = fragmentPartString.replace("~0", "~");
+                        }
+                        if (fragmentPartString.contains("%")) {
+                            try {
+                                fragmentPartString = URLDecoder.decode(fragmentPartString, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
+                            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+                                // Do nothing
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    fragment = fragment.append(fragmentPartString);
                 }
             }
             if (index == -1 && fragmentString.endsWith("/")) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/utils/JsonNodes.java b/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/utils/JsonNodes.java
index 565395959..5cbf7cc1c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/utils/JsonNodes.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/networknt/schema/utils/JsonNodes.java
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
  */
 package com.networknt.schema.utils;
 
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.networknt.schema.JsonNodePath;
 
@@ -61,21 +57,7 @@ public static <T extends JsonNode> T get(JsonNode node, Object propertyOrIndex)
         if (propertyOrIndex instanceof Number) {
             value = node.get(((Number) propertyOrIndex).intValue());
         } else {
-            // In the case of string this represents an escaped json pointer and thus does not reflect the property directly
-            String unescaped = propertyOrIndex.toString();
-            if (unescaped.contains("~")) {
-                unescaped = unescaped.replace("~1", "/");
-                unescaped = unescaped.replace("~0", "~");
-            }
-            if (unescaped.contains("%")) {
-                try {
-                    unescaped = URLDecoder.decode(unescaped, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
-                } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-                    // Do nothing
-                }
-            }
-            
-            value = node.get(unescaped);
+            value = node.get(propertyOrIndex.toString());
         }
         return (T) value;
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocationTest.java b/src/test/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocationTest.java
index 897f0b2ce..fabdb6ac1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocationTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/networknt/schema/SchemaLocationTest.java
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
 
+import java.util.Set;
+
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import com.networknt.schema.SpecVersion.VersionFlag;
+
 class SchemaLocationTest {
 
     @Test
@@ -173,6 +177,30 @@ void documentFragment() {
         assertTrue(SchemaLocation.Fragment.isDocumentFragment("#"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void shouldLoadEscapedFragment() {
+        JsonSchemaFactory factory = JsonSchemaFactory.getInstance(VersionFlag.V202012);
+        JsonSchema schema = factory.getSchema(SchemaLocation
+                .of("classpath:schema/example-escaped.yaml#/paths/~1users/post/requestBody/application~1json/schema"));
+        Set<ValidationMessage> result = schema.validate("1", InputFormat.JSON);
+        assertFalse(result.isEmpty());
+        result = schema.validate("{}", InputFormat.JSON);
+        assertTrue(result.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void escapedJsonPointerFragment() {
+        JsonNodePath fragment = SchemaLocation.Fragment.of("/paths/~1users/post/requestBody/application~1json/schema");
+        assertEquals("/paths/~1users/post/requestBody/application~1json/schema", fragment.toString());
+        assertEquals(6, fragment.getNameCount());
+        assertEquals("paths", fragment.getName(0));
+        assertEquals("/users", fragment.getName(1));
+        assertEquals("post", fragment.getName(2));
+        assertEquals("requestBody", fragment.getName(3));
+        assertEquals("application/json", fragment.getName(4));
+        assertEquals("schema", fragment.getName(5));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void ofNull() {
         assertNull(SchemaLocation.of(null));
diff --git a/src/test/resources/schema/example-escaped.yaml b/src/test/resources/schema/example-escaped.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..273e35732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/schema/example-escaped.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+paths:
+  /users:
+    post:
+      requestBody:
+        application/json:
+          schema:
+            anyOf:
+            - type: object
+            - type: string
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