I personally think that the term "abuse" has been bandied about, mostly by psychologists, too much in the last couple of decades. When it comes to interpersonal relationships, things can get complicated especially when, for example, parents (and I am one) treat their children poorly sometimes, even when we try our best to be aware of and go to therapy for our stuff (possibly to excess sometimes, leading to other imperfections as a person and parent).

So, life sucks sometimes.

But in this case the person who was acting "parentally" was not MariaLucy's parent. He was acting improperly, possibly/probably because of his own issues that were "out of his control". But he was doing it in a professional capacity.

Here's the Wikipedia definition of abuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse

I think there are lots of ways that what happened to MariaLucy could be called abuse. I like the "tort" idea better, that he (and the supervisory employer NHS) "wronged" MariaLucy. I'm wondering if maybe people should move more toward that term, but that may be another thread.