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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rich Booth

Coroner moved to tears at inquest of Australian child denied insulin as family prayed

Elizabeth Struhs and Jayne Struhs, in pic handed out by Jayne Brisbane church manslaughter - (Family handout)

An Australian coroner was moved to tears in Thursday after hearing evidence from the older sister of an 8-year-old girl who died after her insulin was withheld by her parents on religious grounds.

Elizabeth Struhs died of ketoacidosis poisoning in 2022 after her father, Jason Struhs, denied her insulin for her type-1 diabetes.

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