Eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs died in her QLD home. 14 people have been found guilty.

Elizabeth Struhs was denied medication for six days before she died in her Queensland home in 2022.

The eight-year-old, who suffered from Type 1 diabetes, died in Rangeville near Toowoomba on January 7, after her parents and 12 others withheld her insulin and prayed over her body.

At 5.30pm the next day, paramedics were called to the scene.

According to the Courier Mail, members of the group took 24 hours to call police after her death, believing she would be resurrected.

Now, two years on, all 14 members of the religious congregation have been found guilty of manslaughter.

The girl's father, Jason Richard Struhs, 53, faced a judge-only trial for murder by reckless indifference to life in Queensland's Supreme Court over nine weeks starting in July 2024.

Struhs was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the alternative charge of manslaughter. The same decision was made in regards to the leader of the congregation, 63-year-old Brendan Stevens.

Stevens spoke for all defendants at the start of the trial and claimed they held a reasonable belief that God would heal Elizabeth in line with the group's rejection of modern medicine.

Elizabeth's 49-year-old mother, Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, and 22-year-old brother Zachary Alan Struhs faced trial for manslaughter along with 10 other members of "The Saints" congregation.

Both Jason and Elizabeth were originally charged with the eight-year-old's murder, torture and failing to provide the necessities of life.

Kerrie and Jason Struhs. Image: Channel Nine/A Current Affair.

After considering his verdicts for nearly five months, Justice Burns delivered them on Wednesday in a courtroom specially modified to put all 14 defendants on trial at the same time.

All defendants were asked to stand one by one in court and Justice Burns told each of them they had been found guilty of manslaughter.

Therese Maria Stevens, 37, Sebastian James Stevens, 24, Loretta Mary Stevens, 67, Camellia Claire Stevens, 29, Andrea Louise Stevens, 35, Alexander Francis Stevens, 26, Acacia Naree Stevens, 32, Samantha Emily Schoenfisch, 26, Lachlan Stuart Schoenfisch, 34, and Keita Courtney Martin, 24 were the other religious group members on trial.

Detective Acting Superintendent Garry Watts said all of the guilty were members of a religious group, comprising of three families.

All 14 defendants will be sentenced on February 11.

"The length of the judgment will need to be considered. I have again urged the prisoners to seek legal representation," Justice Burns said.

What is 'The Saints' cult?

Elizabeth’s sister, Jayde Struhs, who left the cult at age 16, told A Current Affair in 2022 that the group referred to themselves as 'The Saints'; a "cult" she says formed after breaking away from a more mainstream church.

Detective Acting Superintendent Garry Watts explained, "They had, I would suggest, some differing views in relation to quite a number of things, and that's probably best where I will leave it."

Watts said it was a "very sad set of circumstances" and the investigation had taken a toll on police.

"An eight-year-old child dying, in the way we allege she did, is very traumatic for all involved," he told the Today Show.

"I pay testament to the investigators' ability and their commitment to the job over the last six months. They have worked tirelessly to examine all bits of evidence in relation to this matter."

"A fear-driven cult."

In a GoFundMe page set up to support her young siblings, Jayde said her family were members of a "fear-driven cult" which she fled at age 16.

"They take the religion to its extremes — separating us from the real world and extended family who did not believe," she wrote.

Jayde, who is one of eight siblings, went on to say she left her family knowing they wouldn't be accepting of her sexuality.

"As I experienced high school, not only did I begin to question their teachings, I also became aware of my sexuality and knew that I would never be accepted by my parents."

Jayde earlier recalled the moment she came out to her mother in A Current Affair interview.

"When I told my mother I was a lesbian and that I didn't see eye to eye on her beliefs, it was straight away, I had [patriarch Brendan Stevens] at the doorstep.

"I was taken to their house, we sat down for hours and I had (them), reading me scriptures saying what an abomination it was."

Jayde Struhs. Image: Nine/A Current Affair.

In the post, Jayde said her extended family were left "completely shattered and heartbroken" when they found out about Elizabeth's death.

"We sadly discovered the death of Elizabeth in the cruellest of ways. With so many unanswered questions, we have faced the brutal reality that the people who should have protected her did not, and we may never know the full extent of what took place," said, Jayde.

"Elizabeth Rose Struhs was taken from us far too soon, and a lifetime of memories that we never got to have with her was gone in a moment. Her brave spirit in the face of medical adversity was inspiring. She was a bright light on all that met her," she said.

She was in court to see the verdicts being handed down, alongside the police officers and detectives who had worked ont he case.

— with AAP.

Feature Image: The Today Show.