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Ex-NHL agent arrested on sex charges: used position of trust to prey on boys, girls, police say
CanWest News Service ^ | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 | Gary Dimmock and Andrew Seymour

Posted on 08/23/2006 6:05:51 AM PDT by GMMAC

Ex-NHL agent arrested on sex charges
David Frost used position of trust to prey on boys, girls, police say

Gary Dimmock and Andrew Seymour
CanWest News Service
Wednesday, August 23, 2006


OTTAWA -- David Frost, the former NHL agent who was once the target of a foiled U.S. murder-for-hire plot hatched by one of his star players, woke up this morning in jail on charges that he sexually exploited four boys and three girls, aged 14 to 16, across a six-year period ending in 2001.

The disgraced coach and mentor-turned-NHL-agent for onetime big leaguers like Mike Danton and Sheldon Keefe, laughed off the allegations in 2004 when the Ottawa Citizen first reported news about the sex exploitation probe.

Earlier this summer, Frost, 39, told the paper the Ontario Provincial Police investigation was winding down, that they had nothing on him and soon everyone would know that the probe yielded no charges.

But that's not the case. In fact, Frost was arrested in Kingston, Ont., Tuesday afternoon outside the Juice nightclub, his latest business venture. He was arrested by uniformed officers and plainclothes detectives who had literally travelled the world to interview scores of his former players, including Junior A players, AHL players and a few NHLers.


CREDIT: MIKE CARROCCETTO,THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Former NHL agent David Frost faces 12 charges of sexual
exploitation and one charge of assault for alleged incidents
that occurred in Eastern Ontario involving boys and girls, aged 14 to 16.

Top detectives allege Frost used his position of trust and authority to sexually exploit teenage boys and girls, and have charged him with 12 counts of sexual exploitation and an assault that allegedly happened in Deseronto, Ont., where he coached the Quinte Hawks in the 1996-97 season.

The former NHL agent, who quit the business in December 2005 saying he didn't need hockey and wanted to spend more time with his wife and young children, has repeatedly dismissed the allegations.

"I don't have a clue about this and I'm not even concerned about it," he once told the Citizen. The former NHL agent, known for his belligerence around rinks, said at the time that the OPP investigation was built on rumour alone.

He claimed the detectives were upset that earlier accusations failed to yield charges and forged ahead on a fresh case as part of some vendetta. In those accusations, Frost subjected a 13-year-old male hockey player to abuse, allegedly taping him to a bedpost half naked for keepsake photographs.

This investigation, led by respected Det-Insp. Ian Grant, began after the Citizen started looking into the former NHL agent's past.

A young woman interviewed by the Citizen about alleged sex incidents later filed a complaint against Frost with the OPP.

His life came under intense scrutiny after Danton was arrested for trying to hire a hitman to finally get the agent out of his life for good.

In the end, Danton, a fiery, drop-the-gloves third-line forward, pleaded guilty and was sent to a U.S. prison for 7 1/2 years. His guilty plea spared the hockey world a sensational trial about a needy player and his controlling coach and mentor turned NHL agent.

The guilty plea also meant his motive behind the murder-for-hire plot remained secret.

One strange part of the Danton/Frost story is that the player, now serving his sentence in a New Jersey prison, has remained loyal to the man he tried to have killed.

Somehow, the coach was still calling the shots. In jailhouse conversations taped by authorities and obtained by the Citizen, Frost coached his client on what to tell police, and they went so far as to come up with cover stories. The then NHL agent told his client to blame the whole thing on his troubled childhood, and to simply plead guilty, but assured him that he would win a transfer to Canada, where he would surely get parole right away.

But Danton, still in prison, lost his court battle to win a transfer to Canada and is nowhere close to parole. Still, in his first statement since he was sent to prison, Danton told the Citizen in a long, handwritten letter that he considers his coach and agent his "father." Danton, who changed his name from Mike Jefferson, also exposed his biological family in great detail. In the letter, as directed earlier by his agent, the former NHLer blamed his rage that led to the murder-for-hire plot on his crummy childhood.

His motive, like he himself, remains locked away in prison.

Danton was first introduced to the coach as an 11-year-old boy. The hockey player would end up living with the coach, along with other teenage players at a motel in Deseronto for the 1996-97 hockey season.

The Quinte Hawks were a sensation in the normally quiet town, known for its walleye and cheap cigarettes.

And whatever went on in room 22 of the Bay View Inn stayed inside the room, until, that is, someone started talking.

In all of this time, Frost has done a superb job of controlling and keeping tabs on everything about the Mike Danton story, from the jailed player's correspondence to and from jail, to his client's sex life.

But the one story he had no control over was the one about what allegedly happened inside that roadside motel.

It's a story that Danton hasn't talked about, and one that his mentor, Frost, has denied. And it hasn't been proved in court.

Stories about what happened in room 22 of Deseronto's Bay View Inn, where Frost lived with some of his players, have swirled, but nobody has heard first-account versions from anyone inside the room.

The Deseronto woman who complained to police was only 16 when Frost and his boys came to town, and acknowledged that she had tried to block out her memories from the 1996-97 season.

"I don't have any animosity toward any of them at all," she said, referring to the players who lived with Frost in the motel room.

She, unlike his hockey boys, was not under the coach's spell. Frost has always denied the scores of allegations that have him as a cult-like figure. "There is no cult," he told the Citizen in the spring.

And while his client, whom he considers a "son," serves his time in a U.S. prison, Frost has always told the Citizen that people shouldn't worry about Danton, for he's just at a "cupcake" jail and has it easy and is treated like a celebrity.

Danton's estranged biological family seemed to be celebrating Tuesday night.

"Everybody thinks it's about time, and it's just elation," said Jeff Jefferson, the hockey player's uncle.

Former teammate Corey Batten, who played goal for the Quinte Hawks in the mid-1990s, said Tuesday night that the charges "shocked" him, saying that he never witnessed anything that was not "normal for your ordinary hockey team."

Frost earlier told the Citizen that nothing "criminal" happened in the motel room. He just said his players were getting "laid" by "puck bunnies," and that no coach in the world could tell their players not to have sex with female fans.

According to the Criminal Code, sexual exploitation does not necessarily include sexual intercourse. Section 153 of the Code, states: "Every person who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person or is a young person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency and who a) for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of the young person, or b) for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a young person to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who invites, counsels or incites and the body of the young person."

The offence carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison upon conviction.

gdimmockthecitizen.canwest.com

© Ottawa Citizen


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agent; canada; davidfrost; exagent; mikedanton; nhl; pedophile

1 posted on 08/23/2006 6:05:57 AM PDT by GMMAC
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2 posted on 08/23/2006 6:07:24 AM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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This nut has businesses in the same city I live in and lives within 20 miles of me.

I am glad the OPP finally pulled the trigger on this nut.

Here's hoping he ends up at Kingston Pen with the rest of the perverts.

3 posted on 08/23/2006 6:40:18 AM PDT by hawkaw
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