Were the scenes of paternal sexual abuse recalled by the deep subconscious mind of my client, memories from the current life?

The memories from early infancy recalled by your client of sexual abuse by the father were indeed from the current lifetime because they are often on the radar as a top concern of hers, owing to the huge impact they had in disrupting her life, undermining her self-image, as well as her spiritual beliefs and her trust in the divine. You have done tremendous work with her for the latter concerns. But the fear is still present because she was never able to fully resolve the early life experiences. This was because she could not handle emotionally doing HMR sessions with you when you first attempted to work with her and she was over-dramatizing things because of her inability to remain in an observer mode and became too emotionally involved in the recollections because they stirred up too much fear within her. So you are seeing the contrast in going directly to the deep subconscious, that even though it is aware of everything that happens and has keen perceptions about what is appropriate and what is not, especially when it comes to any kind of threat, it will maintain its equanimity in working with an outside voice such as yours coming to help, even as it is struggling with the issues it describes and may even be unleashing signaling to the body to mount a stress response to some degree.