Women in ancient Rome it more praiseworthy to be a good husband than a good senator." A man of status during the Roman Republic was expected to behave moderately toward his wife and to define himself as a good husband. Wife beating was sufficient grounds for divorce or other legal action against the husband. Domestic abuse enters the historical record mainly when it involves the egregious excesses of the elite. The Emperor Nero was alleged to have had his first wife (and stepsister) Claudia Octavia murdered, after subjecting her to torture and imprisonment. Nero then married his pregnant mistress Poppaea Sabina, whom he kicked
Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic and Kesinovic were kept together in a house in Syria where they served as sexual slaves for jihadis. They were allegedly required to provide sexual services to new recruits. Selimovic and Kesinovic reportedly wished to return to Austria in October 2014, though it had been reported in September that Selimovic had been killed while fighting for Islamic State in Syria. In late 2015 it was reported that Kesinovic was beaten to death with a hammer after trying to escape from sexual slavery in Raqqa. Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic Sabina Selimovic (c. February 16, 1999 – 2014?) and Samra Kesinovic