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sl8

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Sat Nov 26, 2022, 06:22 AM Nov 2022

Fourteen people are accused of murdering Elizabeth Struhs. Here's what we know about the case ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/elizabeth-struhs-alleged-murder-and-the-14-people-to-stand-trial/101671336

Fourteen people are accused of murdering Elizabeth Struhs. Here's what we know about the case against them

ABC Southern Qld / By David Chen, Georgie Hewson, and Anthea Moodie
Posted 14h ago14 hours ago, updated 10h ago

With her long dark hair, pink Tweety Pie cap and Dora the Explorer shirt, eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs looks like a happy little girl in a family photograph.

But her cheeky smile is hard to reconcile with the harrowing evidence presented in a Queensland regional court over the past two months, as one after another, 14 people were committed to stand trial for her murder.

The young girl was found dead in a Rangeville home in Toowoomba on January 8 this year after her life-saving insulin was allegedly withheld by a group of people who claim to love her and trusted God to heal her.

In one of the most extraordinary cases in Australia, over the past several weeks her parents and 12 other members of a fringe religious group have appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court over her death.

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Fourteen people are accused of murdering Elizabeth Struhs. Here's what we know about the case ... (Original Post) sl8 Nov 2022 OP
25 to life for all involved. Lucky Luciano Nov 2022 #1
And once again, I say Hammurabi had it right. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Nov 2022 #2
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