Girl, 7, choked, thrown from bridge after being kidnapped from party, police say 
 
 A Worcester man is accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl from a family party, choking her and throwing her off a bridge and into a lake early Sunday morning, police said. 
 
 The girl was at a family party in Worcester at her grandparents’ house on Forestdale Road when she was taken at 2:30 a.m. from the home by a family friend without the permission of her parents, police said. 
 
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 She was put in a car, choked and thrown off an Interstate 290 bridge into Lake Quinsigamond, police said. 
 
 The victim survived the drop and swam to shore in Shrewsbury, where she was found with visible, but non-life-threatening injuries. 
 
 "Fortunately, a greater tragedy was averted,"Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early said. "The young victim had the strength to make it to shore and get help. I want to thank the resident who answered the door and helped the girl." 
 
 Joshua Hubert, 35, was arrested and charged with kidnapping. He was arraigned Monday in Worcester District Court and ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. 
 
 
 
 Worcester police are asking businesses or residents in the Lincoln Street area who have exterior cameras to review footage from Sunday between 2 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Investigators are looking for any video footage that may have captured a light-colored Saturn Ion that could been in the area during that time frame. 
 
 
 
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 The 7-year-old girl who police say was thrown off a bridge and into Lake Quinsigamond Sunday by a family friend was asleep on a chair inside her grandparent's home when she was grabbed, a prosecutor said Monday. 
 
 Joshua Hubert, 35, of Worcester denied any involvement in the alleged abduction and attack on the 7-year-old girl Sunday morning. 
 
 Prosecutor Cheryl Riddle said the girl was asleep in the living room at her grandparent's Forestdale Road home in Worcester when Hubert grabbed her and forced the child into his car around 2:30 a.m. 
 
 Hubert was at the home attending a cookout, police said. 
 
 Investigators said Hubert drove around with the girl in his car for more than an hour. At one point he stopped driving and choked the girl, police said. 
 
 Eventually Hubert drove to a bridge between Worcester and Shrewsbury and threw the girl into Lake Quinsigmaond, police said. 
 
 Police believe the girl was thrown from the Interstate 290 bridge based on where she ended up in Shrewsbury, but investigators are still working to confirm. 
 
 Riddle only stated "a bridge" during Hubert's arraignment. There is also the Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge that connects Worcester and Shrewsbury via Route 9. 
 
 The girl survived the fall, swam to shore and walked to a home nearby in Shrewsbury. 
 
 "At approximately 4:30 a.m., about two hours later, 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," Riddle said. 
 
 The girl told investigators she went to the nearest house that had lights on. The girl also identified Hubert as the man who attacked her. 
 
 The girl had bruises on her body, marks on her neck and other injuries, Riddle said. 
 
 She told investigators Hubert strangled her and threw her off the bridge. 
 
 Hubert was arrested at the police station and arraigned on a kidnapping charge Monday in Worcester Central District Court. He is being held without bail until Thursday when he returns to court for a dangerousness hearing. 
 
 More charges are expected to be filed against Hubert, the prosecutor said. 
 
 "Fortunately, a greater tragedy was averted," Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said. "The young victim had the strength to make it to shore and get help." 
 
 Early thanked the resident who helped the girl and the Worcester, Shrewsbury and State Police detectives assigned to the case.
– "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. The Telegram reports the girl was found with bruises on her wrist and leg and marks on her neck that indicate she was choked; none of the injuries are life-threatening. The Telegram reports police haven't specified which Lake Quinsigamond bridge she was thrown from, though WCVB cites police in saying it was a bridge along Interstate 290 that stands 100 feet above the water; the Washington Post notes a man who jumped from that bridge in 2012 died. MassLive reports the girl identified Hubert as her assailant. Worcester police are seeking surveillance footage from homes and businesses in the area that have exterior cameras in place and might have captured a Saturn Ion near the vicinity of Lincoln Street between 2am and 4:30am Sunday, notes WCVB.