The Rev. Nelson Daniel Rupp merited a chapter in the Michigan attorney general’s report on Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse from the Diocese of Marquette, saying that, among other ugly behavior years ago, Rupp allegedly took boys to a cottage, “supplied them with liquor, and then sexually abused them.”

On a “sleepover” with children, he “was walking around with only a t-shirt on, with his genitals exposed,” the report stated, also noting a housekeeper for Rupp found children’s underwear in his residence, including a pair “heavily soiled.”

When sent to a medical center that assesses troubled priests, Rupp wouldn’t follow the treatment recommendations, the report said, drawing a rebuke from his bishop in the northern part of Michigan.

Rupp was one of 44 accused priests in th

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