‘We’re not silly people’: Woman says faith-healing group had ‘no intention’ to take dying diabetic girl, 8, to hospital

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The wife of a cult-like religious sect’s leader accused of fatally withholding a child’s insulin for days told police no one in the group had “any intention” of taking the sick girl to hospital.

Loretta Mary Stevens, 67, denied members of the fringe church group were “silly people” as she explained why none of them chose to seek medical attention for Elizabeth Struhs, 8.

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