A verdict was reached Thursday afternoon in the trial of Joshua Hubert, a 43-year-old Worcester man, who was accused by authorities of kidnapping, raping and throwing his best friend’s daughter off a bridge in 2017 — charges he had faced for over eight years.

The jury found Hubert:

Guilty of attempted murder (drowning)

Guilty of attempted murder (strangling)

Guilty of strangulation or suffocation

Guilty of kidnapping a child under 16

Not guilty of aggravated rape of a child

Not guilty of rape of a child aggravated by age

Prosecutors accused him of taking his friend’s 7-year-old daughter from her grandparents’ home as she slept after a family party on Aug. 27, 2017, then driving around Worcester with the child. Prosecutors said he raped the girl, then threw her off the Interstate 29

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