Man Indicted On Charges He Threw Girl From Bridge

WORCESTER, MA—A Worcester man has been indicted on charges that he tried to kill a seven-year-old girl by throwing her off a bridge in August.

Joshua Hubert, 36, Bernice Street, was indicted on two counts of attempted murder, one count of kidnapping a child under 16, and strangulation or suffocation, according to the Worcester county district attorney’s office.

Hubert is charged with throwing the girl off a Lake Quinsigamond bridge on Aug. 27. A grand jury handed up the indictments on Thursday.

He will be arraigned Monday in Worcester Superior Court and is being held on $2 million bail after being arraigned on kidnapping and attempted murder charges in district court.

Early said that Hubert was a friend of members of the victim’s family and was at a cookout with them on Aug. 26. He allegedly put the girl in his car in the early hours of Aug. 27, strangled her and threw her off the I-290 bridge over Lake Quinsigamond.

The girl swam to shore and sought help at a nearby home on the Shrewsbury side of the lake, suffering non life-threatening injuries. That set off an investigation by Shrewsbury and Worcester Police as well as the State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office.

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