‘No turning back’: how Elizabeth Struhs’ father went from sceptic to speaking in tongues and alleged murder

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Jason Struhs, his wife Kerrie, and 12 other members of Toowoomba religious sect the ‘Saints’ are on trial over the eight-year-old girl’s death

For 17 years, Jason Struhs was the sceptic in the family, Queensland’s supreme court heard.

He refused to pay a tithe to the leader of religious sect the “Saints” that his wife, Kerrie Struhs, was a member of, saying: “God doesn’t need the money”. He even testified against Kerrie in exchange for a lower sentence, when the couple were charged with failing to supply the necessaries of life for their young diabetic daughter, Elizabeth, after she was taken to hospital in a coma in 2019 , a court heard this week.

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