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.
The diabetic girl died in 2022 because of the decision to withhold insulin. Among those sentenced were the ... he would have taken Elizabeth to hospital," Justice Martin Burns said, according to ABC. Eleven other members of the cult were sentenced to ...
Elizabeth Struhs, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2019, required daily insulin injections ... All defendants had pleaded not guilty. Justice Martin Burns, delivering his verdict, acknowledged that Elizabeth’s parents and the congregation “adored ...
Her parents belonged to a religious sect known as The Saints, who opposed medical care, believing God would heal her. She died from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes a dangerous build-up of ketones - a type of acid - and blood sugar spikes at her home in Toowoomba west of Brisbane in January 2022.
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.
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 sister of a young girl killed at the hands of religious fanatics – who left her to suffer and die for days after her insulin was taken away – says justice has been delivered for her “bright girl with big dreams”.
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.
The parents of eight-year-old diabetic Elizabeth Struhs, who died after her lifesaving medication was stopped, have been sentenced to 14 years in jail after they were found guilty of the child’s manslaughter alongside a dozen other members of their fringe Christian group.