Accused killer mother was due for parole meeting before Elizabeth Struhs’ death, court hears

Kerrie Struhs was scheduled to meet a parole officer before her daughter died from diabetes medicine being allegedly withheld, a Queensland trial has been told

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A mother accused of killing her daughter had a parole meeting scheduled a day before the eight-year-old girl died allegedly from her diabetes medication being withheld, a judge has heard.

Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 49, has refused to enter a plea in the Brisbane supreme court to the charge of manslaughter over the death of her child Elizabeth Rose Struhs at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, on 6 or 7 January 2022.