Life of a roman Soldier

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I don't think sexual assaults by soldiers would have been any less prevalent back then than today, the reason Boudicca treatment caused so much outrage was because she was a queen and leader of a whole tribe, if she had been a peasent women the reaction wouldn't have been anything like as big.

Also just because a society has strict laws for such crimes doesn't mean they happen less, many countries carry the death penalty for rape yet have worse rates because of other factors (extreme sexism etc)