Kidnapped Girl, 7, Was Thrown Off Bridge, Incredibly Survives

"At approximately 4:30am ... a woman from Shrewsbury was awoken by knocks at her door and found the 7-year-old victim standing at her door in pajamas soaking wet." 

That's how Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Riddle described the incredible end of an allegedly harrowing ordeal. 

Police say the sleeping child was taken from a chair in her grandparents' home in Worcester, Mass., around 2:30am Sunday, driven around for an hour, choked, and thrown from a bridge into a lake, only to miraculously survive and manage to swim to shore. Joshua Hubert, 35, has been charged with kidnapping and is being held without bail. MassLive reports Hubert has denied all involvement; Riddle alleges Hubert attended a cookout at the home and passed through the room where the girl was sleeping as he exited.

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