A coronial inquest is set to examine whether there were system failures that led to the death of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs.
Members of an Australian religious sect were found guilty of manslaughter for withholding medication from an 8-year-old girl, leading to her death.
The parents of Elizabeth Rose Struhs, who died in 2022, were part of a small religious sect in Australia that believed that medical care went against their faith.
Elizabeth Struhs, eight, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in 2022 at her family home in Queensland after her parents and other members of a cult-like religious group withdrew her life-saving medication.
Elizabeth Rose Struhs, 8, died at her family's home after six days without her prescribed insulin shots for type-1 diabetes.
The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing
AN EIGHT-year-old girl was left to die by her cult family who sang and prayed around her instead of providing lifesaving insulin. Fourteen of the religious fanatics, including her parents, have
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has vowed to take any necessary action to improve state government systems in the wake of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs's death.
For days, as the eight-year-old lay dying from diabetes, more than a dozen adults — her mother and father among them — prayed and sang songs instead of seeking life-saving medical treatment.
Queensland's Supreme Court convicted 14 members of an ultra-religious Christian sect of manslaughter in the killing of an 8-year-old diabetic girl by withholding insulin.
Her parents and the sect leader were among those convicted for manslaughter.Fourteen members of a Christian religious sect in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland were found guilty on Wednesday of having caused the death of an 8- year-old diabetic girl by denying her life-saving insulin.
An inquest will be held after an eight-year-old girl died when religious group members including her parents withheld her medication. Two days after 14 members of "the Saints" were found guilty of manslaughter, the Queensland government confirmed the inquest into Elizabeth Struhs' death.