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Rex Martinich

Plan to send girl to cult triggered 'extreme' warning

A young girl's death at the hands of a cult with extreme views of Christianity is in focus. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Doctors warning a young girl was at extreme risk from her mother's anti-medicine cult were excluded from safety meetings before the child was killed, a coroner has heard.

Six-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs was "very lucky not to have died" after her mother Kerrie did not seek treatment for her then undiagnosed type-1 diabetes, a paediatrician told Queensland's Child Safety Department in August 2019.

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