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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Queensland police arrest 12 members of religious group over death of eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs

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Queensland police allege all 12 people arrested were aware of Elizabeth Struhs’ condition and did not take any steps to provide medical assistance. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Twelve members of a religious group in Toowoomba have been arrested after the death of an eight-year-old girl, who Queensland police say was allegedly denied life-saving medication in the belief she would be healed by God.

Elizabeth Rose Struhs had type 1 diabetes and died in her family’s Rangeville home, west of Brisbane, on 7 January. Police allege her parents, who have previously been charged with murder, began withholding insulin six days earlier.

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