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Child safety staff determined to send Elizabeth Struhs home with parents despite doctors’ concerns, inquest hears

Global Published 13 October 2026, 13:53 · archived 13 Oct 2026

Queensland coronial inquest into death of eight-year-old girl continues after 14 members of religious sect were convicted of her manslaughterGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It was impossible to change the mind of child safety staff after they had decided to send Elizabeth Struhs home with her parents despite some of her doctors’ concerns, a police officer has told a coronial inquest into the young girl’s death.Child safety staff decided in 2019 that it would be “more detrimental” to not return Elizabeth, aged six at the time, to her Toowoomba home upon her discharge...

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