In the original version, the soldiers are beating her up when you first see her. Apparently the Japanese script may have implied she had been raped as well, but I don't know if that's true.
What costume did you wear when you rescued her? The dialogue starts off different for each one, and the soldier's uniform triggers a Star Wars reference, unless they took that out.
Merchant costume.
Originally, it could be interpreted that she was raped. SE changed it in the later versions. But they took away context and it made her look like a damsel in d. No idea if they changed it back.
EDIT - I mean assaulted before what you see, not the part where they are working her over.
well dunno about that, but on the damsel in distress thing, I was actually going to mention a little dialogue she has with Edgar on the way to the mountain, something like:
Edgar: "Dont go falling in love with Locke just because he saved you"
Celes: "Im not some love starved twit"
Edgar: "err alrighty then >_>"
which was at least better than the "lol you are women so you should go to the kitchen and make us some sandwitches and let the men go do the fighting" from FF4