In a searing cross-examination in Worcester Superior Court on Tuesday morning, a father was pressed to explain why his DNA was found on his daughter’s underwear — even though its his childhood best friend, Joshua Hubert , who stands accused of raping and trying to kill the girl.

“Just a coincidence?” asked Hubert’s attorney, Kevin Larson, in the courtroom on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Worcester man on the stand blinked and said, slowly, “What is a coincidence?”

“Just a coincidence your sperm was on your daughter’s underwear the night she said she was kidnapped and thrown into Lake Quinsigamond?” the defense attorney asked.

The man softly replied, “Yes.”

Hubert, 43, faces several indictments in connection with the attempted murder and rape of a 7-year-old girl in Worcester in 2017,

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