What started as an ordinary summer night in August 2017 ended in horror : a 7-year-old girl stood dripping lake water from her onesie pajamas on a stranger’s doorstep, the waistband of her Disney underwear torn clean through at the hip.

The man she said did this to her — Joshua Hubert , or as she called him, her “friend Josh” — was her father’s best friend.

Prosecutors say Hubert, who faces charges including child rape, kidnapping and attempted murder, took the girl from her grandparents’ as she slept on Aug. 27, 2017, drove her around Worcester and raped her, then threw her off the Interstate 290 overpass into Lake Quinsigamond.

And even after a week of trial testimony, with both sides working to unravel the timeline, the question remains: what really happened that night?

The jur

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