AN EIGHT-year-old girl was left to die by her cult family who sang and prayed around her instead of providing lifesaving insulin. Fourteen of the religious fanatics, including her parents, have

Elizabeth Rose Struhs, 8, died at her family's home after six days without her prescribed insulin shots for type-1 diabetes.

The parents of an 8-year-old girl, her adult brother and 11 other members of a small, tongues-talking Pentecostal sect in Toowoomba, Australia, were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for causing

The parents of Elizabeth Rose Struhs, who died in 2022, were part of a small religious sect in Australia that believed that medical care went against their faith.

Elizabeth Struhs, eight, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in 2022 at her family home in Queensland after her parents and other members of a cult-like religious group withdrew her life-saving medication.

A court sketch of Jason Richard Struhs (left), the father of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs who died from untreated diabetes, her mother Kerrie Struhs (second from left in second row) and religious group leader Brendan Luke Stevens (left in second row) (Picture: Michel Felix)

Fourteen members of an Australian religious group have been convicted of killing an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied insulin for almost a week. Elizabeth Struhs died at home in 2022, having suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes fatally high blood sugar.

A father stood between his wife's belief in shunning medicine and his child's need for life-saving insulin, in a dilemma that ended in tragedy.

Members of an Australian religious sect were found guilty of manslaughter for withholding medication from an 8-year-old girl, leading to her death.

Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because of their unwavering belief that God would heal her.

For days, as the eight-year-old lay dying from diabetes, more than a dozen adults — her mother and father among them — prayed and sang songs instead of seeking life-saving medical treatment.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has vowed to take any necessary action to improve state government systems in the wake of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs's death.