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MELBOURNE, Australia — The police have charged 12 members of a spiritual group with homicide in reference to the loss of life of Elizabeth Struhs, 8, of Queensland state a number of months in the past. The police say she was denied care over a interval of days for an underlying medical situation.
After Elizabeth’s loss of life in January, her mother and father, Jason Struhs, 50, and Kerrie Struhs, 47, have been charged with homicide, torture and failure to offer requirements of life. They withstand life in jail on the homicide cost. They haven’t but entered pleas.
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Elizabeth’s sister Jayde Struhs, 24, has spoken out towards her mother and father’ non secular group.
The oldest of eight youngsters, Ms. Struhs mentioned she left dwelling to distance herself from her mother and father and the group at age 16 when she realized she was a lesbian.
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The group didn’t rejoice Christmas, believed members’ sole objective was to serve God and didn’t settle for medical intervention, she mentioned.
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“No outside help, no medicines, no Panadol, no doctors, dentists, anything,” she mentioned in an interview. “It was all ‘God will heal.’”
She added that the group mentioned that they had no identify and simply declared themselves to be “the people of God or Jesus.”
She described her sister as a “really bright little 8-year-old” who liked pranks, and mentioned she was diabetic and required insulin. The police haven’t specified the untreated medical situation that led to Elizabeth’s loss of life.
Members of her prolonged household have been “shattered and heartbroken” once they realized of the loss of life, Ms. Struhs wrote in a GoFundMe she began after Elizabeth’s loss of life to lift cash to help her different siblings.
“We have faced the brutal reality that the people who should have protected her did not, and we may never know the full extent of what took place,” she wrote.
Charging 14 folks with homicide over the loss of life of a single baby was extremely uncommon, Superintendent Watts, the detective, mentioned. “I certainly haven’t seen it in my almost 40 years of policing.”
