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.
On Tuesday, after a six-month investigation, the police charged 12 extra folks with homicide, all members of a small, insular non secular group. Authorities mentioned that these folks, who ranged in age from 19 to 65, have been with Elizabeth earlier than her loss of life however didn’t search assist as her situation deteriorated.
The 12 folks in addition to Elizabeth’s mother and father have been “present during the course of the six days that she was sick,” Detective Acting Superintendent Garry Watts of the Queensland police mentioned on Wednesday. “They actively took part in that engagement and they did not provide any medical assistance that the child required over those six days.”
The police mentioned they consider Elizabeth died Jan. 7 at her household’s dwelling, however emergency medical staff weren’t contacted till the afternoon of the next day.
Footage launched by the police confirmed officers raiding a home in Toowoomba early Tuesday and arresting 12 folks inside.