Dr. Grove is Becka’s father and a highly regarded dentist who serves various commanders. Dr. Grove is a pedophile who sexually abuses Becka from the age of four and also abuses Agnes when she is just entering puberty. However, in spite of these crimes, Dr. Grove is not held accountable, since both girls know that if they report his abuse, they will be punished for presumably attempting to smear a professional man’s good name. However, when Lydia discovers Dr. Grove’s sexual abuse of young girls, she resolves to bring him to justice herself, inciting Elizabeth to make a false rape charge against him. In his public execution, Dr. Grove is literally torn to pieces by 70 enraged Handmaids.
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Chapter 41
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Becka had decided to offer up this silent suffering of hers as a sacrifice to God. I am not sure what God though of this, but it did not do the trick for me. Once a judge, always a judge. I judged, I pronounced the sentence.
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Dr. Grove Quotes in The Testaments
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Chapter 41
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Becka had decided to offer up this silent suffering of hers as a sacrifice to God. I am not sure what God though of this, but it did not do the trick for me. Once a judge, always a judge. I judged, I pronounced the sentence.
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