Joshua Hubert , the man convicted of kidnapping and strangling his best friend’s 7-year-old daughter before throwing her off a bridge in 2017, was sentenced to 28 to 30 years in prison on Friday.

Judge Karin Bell handed down the sentence in Worcester Superior Court Friday, about a month after the 43-year-old Hubert was convicted of two counts of attempted murder and one count each of strangulation or suffocation and kidnapping a child. Jurors acquitted Hubert of two rape charges. Bell found three aggravating factors, as set forward in the sentencing guidelines, applied to the case.

“The facts and circumstances underlying this case show particular cruelty,” she said.

Bell issued sentences of 14 to 15 years on each attempted murder charge, running consecutively. She also sentenced Hu

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