NAPANEE, Ont. - The judge in the David Frost trial was set to deliver his verdict Friday after weighing the veracity of lurid allegations that the former hockey coach directed and participated in group sex with his young players and their girlfriends.

Frost was tried in an eastern Ontario court on four counts of sexual exploitation relating to his time as a coach of the junior A Quinte Hawks team in 1996 and 1997.

During his trial, court heard emotional testimony from young women who dated two of the Hawks players when they were 16.

The women testified that Frost held great sway over their boyfriends and the other players and controlled every aspect of their lives, right down to when they were allowed to have sex with their girlfriends and specific positions they tried.

The women also said Frost would engage in three-way sex with them and their boyfriends, starting when they were 16 and he was 29. One of the women testified Frost insisted on continuing to have group sex with her and her boyfriend for several years.

The young men in question, to whom the charges directly relate, emphatically denied all of the allegations the women made in court.

They appeared as witnesses for the defence, which is unusual for alleged victims.

The men cannot be named and The Canadian Press is also not identifying the two women who testified about having sex with players and Frost during the period of the alleged offences, when they were juveniles, though the women are not part of the same publication ban.

The Crown's story is one of Frost at the helm of a "cult" in which he directed and participated in numerous threesomes with players and their teen girlfriends.

The defence said that never happened, adding that sex involving, three, four or even five people happens in hockey and wasn't unique to the Hawks, the now defunct team Frost coached in eastern Ontario in the 1990s.

On the last day of closing arguments, Justice Geoff Griffin said it was not his job to decide who he believed more, the former girlfriends or the former players, but rather if the Crown has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the offences occurred.

Two of the counts of sexual exploitation allege Frost directly or indirectly sexually touched the players, while the other two allege Frost directed the players to sexually touch their girlfriends.