In August 2006, Nathalie Gettliffe was 8 months pregnant. She was refused bail and had to remain in prison and give birth in prison. Her alleged crime: seeking to protect her children from imminent harm.
In August 2006, on Wednesday 23rd, to be exact, Former hockey coach and agent Dave Frost was released on $10,000 bail Wednesday after appearing in an Ontario courtroom charged with a dozen sexual offences against minors.
He shouted "innocent, innocent" to reporters after leaving the courthouse with his lawyer. When he had earlier entered the building, someone yelled "I hope you rot."
Frost was arrested Tuesday and charged with 12 counts of sexual exploitation and one count of assault, stemming from allegations involving seven teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 in eastern Ontario between 1995 and 2001.
The incidents allegedly took place in Deseronto and Napanee where Frost once coached, but police would not say if the allegations are connected to a hockey team.
A publication ban forbids the media from reporting any evidence presented at the bail hearing or the identities of the complainants.
The arrest followed a two-year investigation.
Frost once represented NHLer Mike Danton, currently serving a 7 ½-year prison term in the United States for a $10,000 murder-for hire scheme.
U.S. prosecutors believe the scheme targeted Frost, because Danton thought his former agent was going to reveal career-damaging information about his promiscuity and use of alcohol and drugs.
News of Frost's arrest brought some relief to Danton's parents.
Danton's father Stephen Jefferson characterized the ordeal as "an emotional rollercoaster."
While he was relieved that Frost had been arrested, he said the fact remains that his son is still in jail.
"I believe he is the biggest victim in this whole thing and it'll all be good when Mike's released," Jefferson told reporters on Wednesday,
"I hope that he is going to get back up here, and get the proper help that he needs," he said, adding that his son required medical attention.
Jefferson told CTV's Canada AM on Wednesday that he and his wife waited a "long time" for news of Frost's arrest.
"We're hoping now some justice will be done."
Appearing with his lawyer, Jefferson held back on details of the accusations against Frost. He did, however, say Frost "brainwashed" his son and many others.
"He's a great manipulator, he had me fooled for a long time," Jefferson said.
Jefferson introduced his son to Frost when the boy was 11 years old. Frost became Danton's first coach, and later his agent.
Frost has been accused of turning players he mentored away from their families.
Danton, for example, estranged himself from his parents and changed his name from Mike Jefferson after he was drafted into the NHL.
Danton issued a statement from prison earlier this year saying he doesn't want anything to do with his family.
"The last time I spoke to Mike, he was on a bus going from New Jersey to New York to play the Rangers," said Jefferson. "I called him on a bus and I haven't spoken to him since."
But Danton still talks to Frost from prison almost daily -- a fact Jefferson said "makes me sick."
Jefferson was recently charged with criminal harassment after he repeatedly phoned Frost.
The charge was "egregious," said Jefferson's lawyer, Paul O'Mara, and a Crown withdrew it because it was "not in the public's interest."
A peace bond forbids Jefferson from contacting Frost.
"Jefferson right now is content to let the administration of justice wind its course," O'Mara said.
Frost resigned as an NHL player agent last year. He had previously pleaded guilty to assault charges in a case that involved hitting a player during a game.
He was also banned by the Ontario Hockey Association and suspended by the Metropolitan Toronto Hockey League for other infractions of rules.
Sports journalist Steve Simmons said Canada's hockey parents must be vigilant about the coaches who watch over their children, no matter the outcome of Frost's trial.
"Get to know who is coaching him," Simmons told CTV News. "Do not do just as the Jeffersons did, and trust people to take your kid and make him into an NHL player."
Frost's next court date is Sept. 19.
With a report by CTV's Scott Laurie
So what do you think? Is there justice in Canada? Or only for pedophiles?
