Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-14909251-20191215031740

HybrxdXero wrote: yes but u r also 4getting emerald (what i mean by that i the faxt that she was by herself when she was found by cinder, then we also have yang (and other's that i won't name...) Emerald was never said to have been abused. She was living on the street, but that isn't inherently the same. Yang was abandoned by her mother, but that is also not the same as being abused.

Even in the Adam Character Short, we see a display of how he manipulated and controlled her in a mentally abusive way:

Honestly, that is kind of weak and difficult to separate from the political aspect. Adam isn't doing that specifically to target Blake, but to rationalize his own behavior towards humans. It is a thin thread to hang everything on with her and it is not like anything more can be done.