Overview

• Jurors found Joshua Hubert guilty of two counts of attempted murder—by strangulation and by drowning—along with strangulation or suffocation and kidnapping a child under 16.
• He was acquitted on two aggravated child rape charges after the weekslong trial in Worcester Superior Court.
• Prosecutors said Hubert, a family acquaintance, took the 7-year-old from her grandparents’ Worcester home after a cookout before the pre-dawn assault.
• The child survived being thrown from the I-290 bridge into Lake Quinsigamond, swam to shore, sought help in Shrewsbury, and later testified; she is now 15.
• Trial evidence included forensic testimony that sperm cells found on the girl’s underwear matched her father and not Hubert, and sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 3.