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Elizabeth Struhs smiled as she watched her father's head being lowered into a makeshift trough, not knowing the backyard baptism was a step closer to her death.
The ceremony was filmed on iPhones, later presented in the trial of 14 religious group members.
They were accused of letting Elizabeth die slowly over days, holding a vigil and praying as she slipped in and out of consciousness.
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Elizabeth's body chemistry destroyed her organs and brain after her father stopped giving insulin injections for her type-1 diabetes.
Four months before his daughter's death on January 7, 2022 at the family's Toowoomba home west of Brisbane, Jason Struhs agreed to join the "Saints".
He would later face a judge-only trial along with his wife Kerrie, eldest son Zachary and 11 members of the small Saints congregation.
Justice Martin Burns presided over the matter for nine weeks in Brisbane Supreme Court, hearing Jason Struhs testify that the August 30, 2021 baptism was the "greatest day of my life".
"I was filled with great peace … I was crying, laughing, shaking and then I started praying in this weird language," he said.
The Saints dismissed all man-made medicine and dental care as "witchcraft".
Members told police they welcomed Elizabeth's death as it was a chance for God to resurrect her and show divine power to non-believers.
Trial witnesses described the Saints as a "cult", accusing them of "brainwashing" Jason Struhs and others.
Members were also required to pay up to hundreds of dollars a week to the Saints' leader Brendan Stevens.
The long-bearded former police officer, then aged 60, told his followers he needed the money to support his full-time Bible studies.
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Jason Struhs, then aged 50, worked long hours in a bakery to support the eight children he had with Kerrie, then aged 46.
He told a work colleague his wife's church was "rubbish" but his beliefs began to change when she was jailed in July 2021 for failing to provide Elizabeth with the necessities of life.
A senior endocrinologist told Justice Burns that Elizabeth was "minutes from death" when her father carried her into a Toowoomba emergency department in 2019.
Elizabeth's then-undiagnosed diabetes had caused damaging changes to her blood chemistry.
Her mother told the jury in her neglect trial she did not seek treatment due to her faith that God would heal Elizabeth or bring her back from the dead.
"I could see how sick she was. It was quite obvious. But I had the evidence of God with me," she said.
Jason Struhs agreed to give evidence against his wife at her 2021 trial in exchange for a wholly suspended sentence, telling the jury he was "furious" with her for concealing the serious nature of Elizabeth's illness.
When Elizabeth was discharged from hospital her father signed a diabetes management plan and was given a variety of injectors and glucose monitors.
His co-workers said he struggled in the months that his wife was behind bars and had arguments about faith with Zachary, then aged 19.
"That's 120 days away I don't no (sic) if I can last that long," he wrote in a letter to his wife before her parole release.
She returned home on December 16, 2021.
Jason Struhs stopped giving Elizabeth her rapid-acting insulin on New Year's Day.
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When that made the Saints "happy", he ceased her remaining slow-release doses.
Six days later the Saints found Elizabeth unresponsive.
She had died during the night while lying on a mattress in the living room.
Her father called triple zero about 36 hours later.
When police arrived at the family home, the Saints were present and singing religious songs.
"We obviously believe in God … and we were expecting to bring her back:" Jason Struhs.
Jason Struhs told detectives he stopped giving Elizabeth insulin days before and he knew then she could die.
"We obviously believe in God … and we were expecting to bring her back," he said.
Nearly two-and-a-half years later, he and Stevens faced trial charged with murder by reckless indifference to life.
Kerrie Struhs, son Zachary and 10 other Saints members faced charges of manslaughter at the same trial.
Every defendant declined to apply for bail and represented themselves at trial, refusing to enter pleas.
Stevens spoke for all defendants at the trial's opening.
"We are within our rights to believe in the word of God completely as we do."
Prosecutor Caroline Marco said police recovered deleted photos of the congregation gathered around Elizabeth's unconscious body.
"I am so scared … I thought I was ready for this step but now I seem to be questioning it," Jason Struhs texted Stevens days before Elizabeth died.
His wife also messaged the Saints: "Brendan had been sending encouraging texts to us but Jason was not able to see through spiritual eyes".
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 also stood trial.
Delivering his judgment on Wednesday, Justice Burns found all 14 defendants guilty of manslaughter but acquitted Jason Struhs and Stevens of murder.
Justice Burns said there was insufficient evidence to show Stevens knew Elizabeth would die.
The judge could not dismiss the possibility that Jason Struhs could have been overwhelmed by his new-found faith.
Elizabeth's oldest sister Jayde, who left the family aged 16, claimed authorities had failed to protect her younger sibling "from an incredibly unsafe situation".
The defendants are set to be sentenced on February 11 and the Queensland government has announced there will be an inquest into Elizabeth's death.
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
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