Sect accused of killing child by denying medication believes she’ll be ‘raised from the dead’
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Members of a church group accused of killing an eight-year-old girl have denied they acted in a criminal conspiracy to deny her diabetes medication, a court heard.Elizabeth Rose Struhs died on 7 January 2022 at her family’s home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, after six days without her prescribed insulin shots for type-1 diabetes.Elizabeth’s parents and 12 other defendants faced Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday and started giving their closing addresses following seven weeks of prosecution evidence in a judge-only trial before justice Martin Burns.Lachlan Stuart Schoenfish, 34, is charged with manslaughter and told Burns during his closing address: “We believe in God above medicine.”
Schoenfish said he never encouraged Struhs to withdraw Elizabeth’s insulin as he had come to that decision himself after being baptised in The Saints in August 2021.”Despite what the prosecution allege by some persuasion or manipulation of us towards Jason to do or not do anything, Jason was given power by God to believe in God,” he said.Elizabeth’s mother, Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 49, along with 10 other members of the congregation also faced trial charged with manslaughter.
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