IQALUIT - A priest who returned from Belgium last month to face sex crime allegations is now facing one more sex-related charge, following a court appearance on Feb. 9 in Iqaluit.

Eric Dejaeger, 63, was arrested upon arriving in Canada this past Jan. 20 on a warrant issued in 2002 for three charges each of buggery and indecent assault for incidents alleged to have occurred between 1978 and 1982 in Iglulik.

Two more charges of indecent assault were laid against him after his arrival in Canada. Court heard last week the suspect is facing a third new charge of indecent assault. He also faces one count of failure to appear in court.

Dejaeger had been in Belgium since 1995 but was expelled from that country in January for living there illegally.

Dejaeger was convicted on eight counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault in Baker Lake in 1990 and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Dejaeger will appear at the Nunavut Court of Justice on March 21.

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