All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.

During the trial, the Supreme Court of Queensland heard that the sect, known as the Saints, rejected the medical system and the use of medications and put their trust in the healing power of God to cure her of type 1 diabetes.

Just weeks after Elizabeth Struhs was brought to hospital “near death” from ketoacidosis, which led to her diagnosis, her father, Jason Struhs, approached her treating team to ask if there were tests to determine if his daughter had been cured.

While he appropriately monitored her glucose levels and administered her insulin for the following two years, he eventually decided to withdraw treatment after caving in to the Saints, which believed medical care was unnecessary because God cures.