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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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/14/elizabeth-struhs-trial-sister-confronts-the-saints-members-ntwnfb