‘Wouldn’t bury a bag of bones’: Elizabeth Struhs’ father refused to give her a funeral, court told

All 14 adult members of Toowoomba sect the Saints' are on trial for the death of the eight-year-old girl in 2022

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Elizabeth Struhs' father, Jason, told a coronial counsellor he wouldn't bury a bag of bones" and said he didn't believe in funerals, after his eight-year-old daughter died, a Queensland court heard on Monday.

Later, the father of one of the members of the Toowoomba religious group now on trial for the death of Elizabeth told the court he had warned his son he'd joined a cult".

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