An eight -year -old girl was left to die by her cult family who sang and prayed around her instead of providing vital insulin.
Fourteen of religious fanatics, including his parents, were condemned for the death of Elizabeth Struh, after having believed “God would heal her”.
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The worship of the three families, from Towoomba, near Brisbane, in eastern Australia, was found of guilty guilty guilty after retaining the dying insulin – which they knew by diabetes.
The family formed a ring around her bed – singing and Allelujah, even after having stopped breathing – expecting them to resuscitate the dead.
Judge Martic Burns, distributing the verdicts, said that Elizabeth’s death was “inevitable” while the group refused any medical aid during its six -day drop.
He continued: “Due to a singular belief in the healing power of God who, in the minds of his parents and other members of the Church has left room to use any form of medical care Or treatment, she was deprived of one thing that would certainly have kept in life – insulin. “”
Her father Jason Stuhs is seen on images of the body police the day after Elizabeth’s death by defending his actions and saying that he was “happy for her”.
The deceived father told Sergeant-Dettective Sharny O’Brien: “So, on Monday, she decided that she had enough, so I did not give her insulin since Monday.
“And yesterday, she fell asleep and died.
“The world cannot cure it because it must do it throughout its life, and it wanted to try without insulin.
“This is where we are finished.”
Elizabeth was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2019.
But at the end of November 2021, she became seriously ill of diabetic ketoacidosis – a complication caused by a lack of insulin.
A central belief of the group was the healing power of God, learned the court, and they considered normal medicine as a “witchcraft” – so that they would not give it insulin.
On January 2, 2022, Elizabeth’s father Jason Struhs told the Church that “God had healed Elizabeth of his diabetes”, according to the written decision of Burns.
That night, Elizabeth had her last dose of slow action insulin.
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His normal blood tests the following The morning convinced Jason that God healed his daughter, said the decision.
Jason told her daughter to get rid of her surveillance equipment because she no longer needed it – with the rest of the group praising “miraculous” progress.
Over the next four days, worship turned into turn on the dying little girl.
Both have been updated by text, noting that Elizabeth was “agitated”, “fairly weak” and vomiting.
The spiritual leader, Brendan Stevens, has repeatedly assured Elizabeth’s parents whom “God will prevail” – even after the death of the girl.
A scary text between the members read: “Elizabeth does not seem to breathe apparently, but we will see a victory very soon. God can do everything!”
The court recorded that Jason finally called an ambulance 36 hours after his daughter had withered, explaining that “although God still raises Elizabeth, they could not leave a corpse in the house”.
The cops set up a crime scene when they arrived.
A detective told court that she arrived to find around 20 people in the courtyard, playing music and praying.
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Burns said that Elizabeth was a “dynamic and happy child” who was “loved with love (…) and adored” by all the members of the Church, including convicted people.
His family was one of the three who formed an united religious sect, meeting three times a week.
Jason joined the church in August 2021, according to his wife Kerrie Struhs, and the two became bewitched by the religious lessons of the leader Brendan Stevens.
The group considered himself Christian and followed the Bible.
They thought that by prayer, a person could receive the Holy Spirit, which would allow them to speak in languages.
Jason and Brendan were initially accused of murder, but the judge deemed them guilty instead of in -vable manslaughter because he could not be sure that “knew that Elizabeth would probably die”.
The fourteen accused members had refused to plead a plea, which was officially interpreted as not guilty.
When he was invited to make an opening declaration at the start of the trial, Brendan told court that his church was the victim of “religious persecution”.
Apart from the court after the verdict, Elizabeth’s older sister Jayde Struhs told journalists that she was “relieved” that the group was found guilty.
She said, “It was three years long and hard. Not a moment happened that I did not think of my little sister, Elizabeth. “”
The 14 people recognized guilty will be sentenced on February 11.
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