The mother accused of torturing and murdering her own eight-year-old daughter is an anti-vaxxer with religious beliefs that God cured illnesses, not doctors and hospitals.
Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, who is the mother of eight children, is charged along with her 50-year-old husband Jason Richard Struhs of killing their daughter, torture and failing to provide the necessities of life.
Police and paramedics discovered the lifeless body of Elizbaeth Rose Struhs , who had earlier suffered from being drastically underweight, at the Struhs home in Rangeville, Toowoomba last weekend.
The primary schoolgirl, who has previously been described as 'top of her class', suffered as from swelling on her brain and blood clots when she was a first grader.
But Kerrie Struhs believed faith would heal the girl, reasoning that she didn't trust doctors or the medical system, and that God had '100 percent promised healing'.
And when the girl recovered and performed well at school, Mrs Struhs believed 'God's hand was on her to make her perfect'.
Shocked local MP David Janetzki, said the death 'in our local street, this is a house that my wife and I walk past regularly on our daily walk' was 'beyond horrific'.
He said his local community was 'grieving and is desperate for answers'.
Jason Richard Struhs, 50, (pictured) and Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 46, have been charged over the alleged murder of their daughter
Shocked local MP David Janetzki (above) said the death 'in our local street, this is a house that my wife and I walk past regularly on our daily walk' was 'beyond horrific'
Mrs Struhs, who once ran her own business and sold items at market stalls around Gatton in Queensland's Lockyer Valley and Upper Coomera, in the Gold Coast hinterland, shares her religious beliefs with other daughters.
