Fourteen members of a church group who killed a young girl by withholding her diabetes medication are due to face sentencing for manslaughter.
Eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs died on January 7, 2022 at her family's home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, after her parents, brother and 11 other members of "the Saints" religious group gathered to pray around her.
The 14 defendants are due to face the Supreme Court in Brisbane on Friday for the start of their sentencing.
Elizabeth had slipped in and out of consciousness, suffered unquenchable thirst and lost the ability to talk during the six days without her prescribed insulin for type-1 diabetes.
During the whole ordeal, the rapid-acting injection kit that could have saved her life was just metres away in a pink zip-up case.
Elizabeth's father, Jason Richard Struhs, 53, mother Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 49, and brother Zachary Alan Struhs, 22, were among 14 members of the church group who on January 31 were found guilty of manslaughter.
Justice Martin Burns reached his verdicts following a judge-only trial that was held over nine weeks from July 2024.
All 14 defendants represented themselves, refused to enter pleas and claimed they were acting on their religious beliefs that included rejecting modern medicine as "witchcraft".
Earlier this week Justice Burns asked the defendants if they wanted to individually speak with a psychiatrist to prepare reports that could reduce their sentences.
The defendants said on Tuesday they wanted to meet to discuss whether to co-operate with producing pre-sentence reports.
Justice Burns previously said he would expedite the sentencing to Friday if the defendants did not want to participate.
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