Cult leader’s wild claim on child’s death
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The leader of a cult-like faith-healing group charged with the murder of a diabetic girl claimed to police they had “fabricated” the charge and they were “making out an innocent death” to be murder.
In a frosty interview with detectives months after Elizabeth Struhs was found dead, played to the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday, Brendan Luke Stevens launched into an extraordinary spray as police questioned him over the girl’s alleged murder.
Elizabeth, 8, was found dead in her family’s Rangeville home in early 2022, after her insulin had been withdrawn.
Mr Stevens, the 62-year-old leader of the religious sect known as The Saints, is among the 14 people currently on trial over the child’s death.
In his interview following his arrest in July 2022, Mr Stevens becomes combative and claims police were making out the child’s “innocent” death to be a murder.
Police also recount their conversation with Mr Stevens in the days after Elizabeth’s death where he said: “I’ve spoken with you already, I know your hearts. They’re evil … I know what you do, it’s unrighteous.”
The Crown contends Elizabeth’s parents Jason Richard Struhs, 52, and Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 49, decided to withdraw the girl’s insulin medication to prove their faith in God.
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