A Massachusetts man will spend decades behind bars for kidnapping and strangling a then-7-year-old girl before throwing her from a bridge into the water below , forcing the young girl to swim for her life.

Joshua Hubert, 43, was sentenced Friday to 28 to 30 years in prison after a jury convicted him of attempted murder by drowning, attempted murder by strangling, strangulation or suffocation, and kidnapping a child under 16 years of age, the Worcester County District Attorney said . He was acquitted of two counts of aggravated rape of a child.

On Aug. 26, 2017, Hubert attended a cookout with the girl's family. Early the next morning, Hubert kidnapped the girl as she was sleeping before choking her and tossing her from the Interstate 290 bridge into Lake Quinsigamond. The girl survived th

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