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.
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.
Members of an Australian religious sect were found guilty of manslaughter for withholding medication from an 8-year-old girl, leading to her death.
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
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
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 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.
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.
Members of a fringe faith-healing congregation accused of fatally withholding a young girl’s lifesaving medicine have been found guilty of her manslaughter — with the father and leader of the “church” found not guilty of murder.
Elizabeth Struhs passed away at the age of eight after being denied her diabetes medication for a reported six days.
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.