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Rex Martinich

Child safety 'misunderstood' cult before girl's death

An inquest into the 2021 death of Elizabeth Rose Struhs has focused on child safety procedures. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

A child safety officer who returned a girl to a cult that later killed her has admitted being "out of their depth" on the family's extreme beliefs, a coroner has heard.

Protection officers also had no formal training or procedures for tracking cases when eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs died, education department workers testified in Brisbane on Wednesday.

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