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Savannah Meacham and Laine Clark

'Cult' members jailed for gambling with child's life

Elizabeth Struhs died after her medication was withheld as her parents and others prayed around her. (HANDOUT/JAYDE STRUHS)

Convinced God would heal her, Elizabeth Struhs' parents were encouraged by a church group to gamble with the eight-year-old's life and withhold her medication.

For days Elizabeth suffered a slow and painful death as her body shut down from a lack of insulin in her family's home west of Brisbane in January 2022.

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