Norbert Denef

Norbert Denef (born May 5, 1949 in Delitzsch, Germany) is a German victim of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church.

He worked in Droyßig, Delitzsch, Nordhausen, Langenweddingen, Hecklingen, Wittenberg Piesteritz and Niedertiefenbach (Diocese of Limburg).

Denef is believed to be the first victim in Germany who obtained compensation from the Roman Catholic church for sexual abuse in childhood.

[4][5][6] Denef submitted a petition at the German Bundestag in 2008 to remove the statute of time limitations on child sexual abuse cases to file a lawsuit.

Denef founded the Network of Victims of Sexual Violence, named NetzwerkB for short, in April 2010 and became its speaker.

During the Ecumenical Church Conference in Germany in May 2011, Denef interrupted the abuse debate in front of some thousand visitors.

[23] On June 8, 2012 Norbert Denef started a hunger strike, as the SPD was not willing to act to abolish the statutes of legal limitations for child abuse.