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14 members of an Australian religious group are convicted over diabetic girl's death

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Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of her manslaughter.Elizabeth Rose Struhs died in 2022, at her family’s home in Toowoomba in Queensland state after six days without her prescribed insulin shots for type-1 diabetes.Her father, Jason Richard Struhs and the leader of the family’s religious group called “The Saints,” Brendan Luke Stevens had been charged with the more serious crime of murder.But a Queensland Supreme Court judge on Wednesday found both guilty of her manslaughter. Burns also found another 12 members of the congregation guilty of manslaughter. They will be sentenced next month.