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Former Calgary Homeless Foundation board of directors member Robin Wortman will seek bail onsex-related charges on Thursday.

Wortman appeared briefly in Calgary provincial court on Wednesday via closed-circuit TV from the Calgary Remand Centre.

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Defence counsel Andre Ouellette asked that his client’s application for freedom pending trial be expedited, citing provisions of the Criminal Code that provide for timely bail applications.

“This man was arrested Sunday, he has no criminal record,” Ouellette told Judge Marilyn Slawinsky.

But Crown prosecutor Achilles Grobler said the issue of Wortman’s release couldn’t be addressed in docket court because of the complexity of the case.

Grobler said the hearing would take more than the allowable 10 minutes that the first appearance court permitted.

“There’s video that would be part of this show cause (hearing),” Grobler said, without elaborating.