Kerrie Struhs was scheduled to meet parole officer before daughter died from diabetes medicine being allegedly withheld, Queensland trial told
Elizabeth Struhs died on a mattress on the floor of her family’s living room after her father allegedly agreed with the family’s religious group to reduce and then stop her insulin shots.Elizabeth Struhs died on a mattress on the floor of her family’s living room after her father allegedly agreed with the family’s religious group to reduce and then stop her insulin shots.
Justice Martin Burns heard on Tuesday that Kerrie Struhs had been scheduled to attend a follow-up meeting with a parole officer in Toowoomba on 6 January 2022 after she was released from a five-month prison term in December 2021.Parole duty officer Melanie Ford told the court she met with Kerrie Struhs on 23 December 2021 and she was told the parolee was spending all her time taking care of her family and attending church.
Parole case manager Eleanor Savill testified she received a phone call from Kerrie Struhs on 6 January in the morning.“ Struhs was scheduled to report to me in person that morning at 9.30am … she was calling to say she was unwell and she could not attend … She mentioned diarrhoea,” Savill said.
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