Jayde Struhs, who escaped Toowoomba group ‘the Saints’ in 2014, delivers victim impact statement as judge considers sentences
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The religious sect members who killed Elizabeth Struhs, including her parents, did so in order to “play God”, the eight-year-old’s eldest sister has told the Brisbane supreme court.
Jayde Struhs grew up a member of Toowoomba religious sect ‘the Saints, but fled the group, which has been likened to a cult in court, in 2014 after they refused to accept that she was gay and attempted to convince her to renounce her sexuality.
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