Worcester County prosecutors urged a judge to sentence Joshua Hubert , the man convicted last month of kidnapping and strangling a 7-year-old girl before throwing her off a bridge, to more than 30 years in prison.

Hubert was convicted of two counts of attempted murder and one count each of strangulation or suffocation and kidnapping a child following a jury trial in Worcester Superior Court. He is set to be sentenced on Friday morning.

Prosecutors, in a sentencing memo filed this week, asked Judge Karin Bell to sentence Hubert to 18 to 20 years in prison for each attempted murder count, with the sentences running consecutively.

Assistant District Attorney Mark McShera also recommended a sentence of 14 to 15 years on the kidnapping charge, which would run concurrent to the attempted

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