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Ex-Michigan State coach convicted in case tied to Nassar

She faces up to four years in prison.

Credit: AP

Former Michigan State University womens gymnastics coach Kathie Klages listens to testimony Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, at Veterans Memorial Courthouse in Lansing, Mich., where she's on trial for two counts of lying to police during a 2018 interview. Klages denies that two gymnasts told her in 1997 that Larry Nassar, a former MSU sports medicine doctor who abused hundreds of girls and young women under the guise of medical treatment, had sexually abused them. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

LANSING, Mich. — A jury has convicted a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged.

Kathie Klages was found guilty Friday of a felony and a misdemeanor in a Lansing courthouse where Nassar was sentenced more than two years ago.

She faces up to four years in prison.

She's the second person other than Nassar to be found guilty of charges related to his serial molestation of young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment.

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