Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of her manslaughter.

Members of an Australian religious sect were found guilty of manslaughter for withholding medication from an 8-year-old girl, leading to her death.

Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because of their unwavering belief that God would heal her.

Fourteen members of an Australian religious group have been convicted of killing an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied insulin for almost a week. Elizabeth Struhs died at home in 2022, having suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes fatally high blood sugar.

A judge has returned a bombshell verdict in the trial of 14 members of a cult-like religious circle who were accused of killing an eight-year-old girl.

A father and a church leader who killed an eight-year-old girl after withholding medical care have been found guilty of manslaughter but acquitted of murder.

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, 8, passed away after fringe Christian group The Saints withheld her life-saving medication, believing that God would intervene. The parents of Elizabeth and 12 members of the home-based religious sect in Australia were convicted of her manslaughter after believing that medical care went against their faith.

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 cult-like religious group in Australia who prayed over a dying child instead of giving her life-saving medication have been found guilty of manslaughter but escaped a murder conviction.

A father stood between his wife's belief in shunning medicine and his child's need for life-saving insulin, in a dilemma that ended in tragedy.

Elizabeth's body chemistry destroyed her organs and brain after her father stopped giving insulin injections for her type-1 diabetes. Four months before his daughter's death on January 7, 2022 at the family's Toowoomba home west of Brisbane, Jason Struhs agreed to join the "Saints".