The parents of 8-year-old Elizabeth Struhs, who was denied insulin, have been sentenced in connection to her death alongside 12 other members of an Australian religious sect that claim they believed God would heal her.
Fourteen members of an Australian cult were sentenced for the death of an 8-year-old girl after they denied her insulin at the urging of their leader.
“Elizabeth suffered a slow and painful death, and you are all, in one way or another, responsible,” Justice Martin Burns said in a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. The mother Kerrie Struhs and father Jason Struhs were each sentenced to 14 years in prison. Both had been found guilty of abdicating their duty of care to their daughter.
A judge has lashed a group of religious fanatics who left a young girl to suffer and die for days, saying they chose to “gamble” on the life of a child.
Fourteen members of a small Australian Christian sect who deprived an 8-year-old girl of insulin in the belief that God had healed her – or would raise her from the dead – have received lengthy prison sentences for her manslaughter.
The girl’s mother and father, the leader and other members of the home-based church were jailed for manslaughter.
The parents of an eight-year-old girl have been jailed over the child's "painful" death after a church group gambled with her life and withheld her insulin.
A judge has jailed 14 members of a fringe Australian religious group over the "slow and painful" death of an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied life-saving insulin.
The Christian extremist parents of eight-year-old Toowoomba diabetic Elizabeth Struhs, who suffered a painful death after they stopped giving her lifesaving medication, have been jailed for 14 years.
Eight-year-old Elizabeth who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2019 was denied life-saving insulin by her parents, Jason and Elizabeth Struhs, due to their belief that prayer alone would heal her. Instead, she died from diabetic ketoacidosis at her home in Toowoomba, Australia, in January 2022.