Sounds like it all happened behind the closed doors.

A nurse friend of mine once told me that one day, a girl was brought into the hospital where she worked. To cut the long story short, the girl desperately needed blood transfusion but her Jehovah's witness parents wouldn't give their consent (Jehovah's witnesses are against blood transfusion). Luckily, the hospital, the local authority and ultimately the government overrode the parents' refusal and the girl was given blood transfusion.

If only Elizabeth's condition was known to anyone outside the religious group, they could've raised alert. Truly tragic.

Maybe thoughts and prayers went to the extreme.

In Idaho the law protects parents who do this.

Sounds like many other cases of Christian Science medical neglect. I wonder if they are beginning to put 2 and 2 together and question if there is a God, or at least why the supposedly omnipotent deity chose to ignore their prayers. Well that may be giving them too much credit.

That poor little girl! Does Australia have a death penalty?