A Worcester man was convicted Thursday of kidnapping and strangling a child before throwing her off a bridge in 2017, court records showed.

Joshua Hubert, 43, was found guilty on two charges of attempted murder, one charge of strangulation or suffocation, and one charge of kidnapping a child. He was acquitted on two additional charges of child rape, court records showed.

“I feel like I’m living in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’” Kevin Larson, Hubert’s attorney, told Boston.com. “I don’t know how rational jurors could look at the evidence and say that Joshua Hubert was guilty in this case.”

The trial began Sept. 8 in Worcester Superior Court, eight years after Hubert kidnapped the child, then 7 years old, from her grandparents’ house in Worcester. Prosecutors alleged that, in the early hou

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