Ed Horne back in Iqaluit court

Ed Horne has been ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing held this week in Iqaluit.

The former teacher was arrested in Toronto in January 2005, on charges of sexually assaulting four children when he was working in the Nunavut communities of Cape Dorset and Sanikiluaq, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 11 new charges include indecent assault, gross indecency, and buggery.

These charges are the third batch to be brought against Horne, who has already served two prison sentences for molesting 44 Inuit children while he was a teacher.

Horne went to prison on a six-year jail sentence in 1987, for eight charges involving 24 boys he molested between 1983 and 1985 in Kimmirut and Cape Dorset.

He later returned to the Iqaluit courthouse on new charges that he molested 50 other boys in Sanikiluaq, Cape Dorset and Iqaluit between 1973 and 1982. Horne pleaded guilty to 20 sex offences on the list and received a five-year jail sentence on Sept. 14, 2000.

Horne appears in court again on Dec. 8.