Iqaluit (May 09/05) - Former teacher Ed Horne is expected back in an Iqaluit courtroom in September facing 11 sex-related charges.

On May 2, Horne's lawyer Tom Boyd confirmed via-speaker phone in an Iqaluit courtroom that Horne's preliminary hearing would take place Sept. 27.

Horne has not yet entered a plea in this case but has elected for a trial by jury.

Boyd is still waiting for a full disclosure package from Horne. An April 4, a court appearance was pushed back for the same reason.

Horne is accused of sexually assaulting four boys when he was their teacher in Cape Dorset and Sanikiluaq in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The charges include gross indecency, indecent assault and buggery.

As a teacher and principal in the 1970s and 1980s Horne worked in Iqaluit, Kimmirut, Cape Dorset, Sanikiluaq and Grise Fiord.

In 1987 Horne pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting eight children between the years 1983-1985. He was sentenced to six years in a federal prison.

More sex-related charges involving Northern children came forward and Horne was arrested at the Toronto airport March 31, 1999.

Horne was sentenced to five more years in a federal jail in September 2000 after pleading guilty to 20 of the 72 sex-related offenses against children brought against him.

Horne received day parole in 2002. He lives in a halfway house in Toronto and must report to a probation officer on a regular basis. r basis.