Doctor warned Elizabeth Struhs would not be safe years before sect killed her by withdrawing medicine

Inquest hears paediatricians pleaded with child safety for action to protect the eight-year-old from her parents and other Toowoomba sect members

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A specialist child safety doctor was stonewalled" by a child safety officer after repeatedly warning that Elizabeth Struhs would not be safe living with her mother, years before her parents allowed her to die by withdrawing lifesaving medicine, a coronial inquest has heard.

Elizabeth returned to live with her parents at her family home in Toowoomba in 2019, after both of them were convicted of neglecting her.