Police recorded mother Kerrie Stuhs saying child’s insulin was withheld after her father ‘experienced the power of God’, Queensland trial hears
Elizabeth Struhs died while lying on a mattress on the floor of her family’s home in Toowoomba, after days of suffering from a lack of insulin.Elizabeth Struhs died while lying on a mattress on the floor of her family’s home in Toowoomba, after days of suffering from a lack of insulin.A mother accused of killing her daughter told police she “did a lot of praying” when the eight-year-old stopped breathing after six days without her diabetes medication, a judge has heard.
“There wasn’t really any discussion. We just felt at peace. He told us that’s what he wanted to do,” Struhs said in the recording. Elizabeth’s father, Jason Richard Struhs, 52 and Brendan Luke Stevens, the 62-year-old leader of a small Christian group called “The Saints”, are charged with the girl’s murder.Stevens previously told Justice Burns he and the other defendants had a reasonable religious belief God would cure Elizabeth’s diabetes.
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