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Joshua Hubert was convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping after prosecutors said he attacked a 7-year-old girl in Massachusetts in 2017

The girl, now 15, testified that she pretended to be dead as Hubert strangled her, before he put a bag over her head, forced her into his trunk then threw her off a bridge

She survived a fall into Lake Quinsigamond, swam to shore and knocked on a stranger's door for help

A Massachusetts man who was supposed to be a family friend instead kidnapped a 7-year-old girl, strangled her and threw her off a bridge into a lake. She survived the plunge — and now, years later, he’s been convicted.

On Thursday, jurors found Joshua Hubert guilty of two counts of attempted murder — one by strangulation and one by drowning — along with strangulation

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