Eight-year-old girl's parents and members of religious sect guilty of her manslaughter The parents of an eight-year-old Australian girl - and 12 other members of their hardline religious sect - have been found guilty of her manslaughter after withholding her diabetes medication.
Her father Jason Struhs, 53, mother Kerrie Elizabeth, 49, brother Zachary Alan Struhs, 22, and the leader of the family's religious group The Saints, Brendan Luke Stevens, 63, were among the 14 convicted over her death.
"There remained a reasonable possibility that, in the cloistered atmosphere of the church which enveloped Struhs... that he [the father] never came to the full realisation Elizabeth would probably die," the judge said.
Elizabeth Rose Struhs died on 7 January 2022 at home in Toowoomba, Queensland, after six days without insulin injections for her type 1 diabetes.
During the nine-week trial last year, the jury heard the faith healing group, which has been described by many in Australia as a cult, withheld her medication on purpose - believing God would save her.
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