grooming

He said there were elements of grooming in Beckett's offending and that it continued after he was made aware of some of the allegations.

My spouse and I might as well be their butlers: grooming them, cleaning up behind them several times a day, serving them the best food available.

Despite characterizations of premeditated grooming, Britt asserted that she felt safer with him than with any of the many men in her young life at whose hands she had, in Barney’s words, “suffered unspeakable violence.”

"I think it’s obvious he was grooming me, trying to pull me in," he said.

At the time, Tyson apologised for her "past actions", but said her behaviour never "extended beyond bad edgy jokes" and denied ever grooming anyone.