article_snippet.sent: Grove, a former nursing student, said their daughter was 'seeking the Lord' and was not being held against their daughter will, despite protestations from their daughter parents.
article_snippet.sent: Jake Gardner, one of three pastors that lead the Church of Wells, released a statement to the Lufkin Daily News, lambasting the behavior of Catherine Grove's parents. '
article_snippet.sent: May God open your eyes to behold the truth of what is really going on in this controversy,' Gardner said.
article_snippet.sent: Catherine Grove denied claims by Catherine Grove parents that Catherine Grove was brainwashed into converting .
article_snippet.sent: Gardner added: 'We are amazed at the atrocious behavior of the Groves towards the Groves daughter, and pray the Groves would be held accountable by those with a hand in this matter (as We have sought to do), to the end that the Groves lives and behavior would agree with the Groves confession of Christ.'
article_snippet.sent: On April 7, I was still in the psych ward and the doctor came in and said after testing me all this time very carefully I had no mental illness so her parents cannot keep me in a hospital,' Grove said in a YouTube video.
article_snippet.sent: I just wanted to remove this pressure upon me,' Catherine Grove said in a YouTube video. '