00:00We trust in God, so we don't think that she needs the needles, that God has healed her.
00:06The parents and 12 members of a religious congregation accused of killing an eight-year-old
00:11girl by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of manslaughter.
00:16Elizabeth Rose Strews died on January 7, 2022, at her family's home in Toowoomba, west of
00:24Brisbane, after six days without her prescribed insulin shots for type 1 diabetes.
00:30And we believe in the healing power of God, and we don't believe in being held up by medication.
00:46And as Elizabeth was diagnosed with diabetes a couple of years ago, we believe that she
00:55didn't need to continue with the medication, and that she would be healed.
01:00Elizabeth's 49-year-old mother, Kerry Elizabeth Strews, and 22-year-old brother, Zachary Alan
01:05Strews, faced trial for manslaughter, along with 10 other members of the Saints congregation.
01:12And when you say we, like, who was with you in that thought process?
01:17Oh no, it was me, because I'm the one that gives it to her.
01:21Oh, we'd given up insulin. I mean, I believe in God, but there's still... I was scared.
01:28You were scared, you were still unsure about stopping the insulin at that point?
01:31Yeah, yeah, yeah. There hadn't been a decision about that, but we spoke about it.
01:34Why were you scared about stopping it?
01:38I suppose I was still in the flesh and thinking like a man, and you know what can happen.
01:44What did you think could happen if you stopped the insulin?
01:46Oh, she could die. But I trusted in God, and so did she, so we made the decision together that...
01:53Okay.
01:55And regardless of what is happening now, we still believe he can do anything. He has promised healing.
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