Kori Brown, 43 of Lorain County, was sentenced to three years in prison following plea deal.

She pleaded guilty to endangering children, a third-degree felony. She was initially charged with having engaged in sexual conduct with a student.

It started with messages and social media likes, but by 2015, Kate Lukosavich's then 32-year-old Cuyahoga Falls High School softball coach, Kori Brown, had invited her — a 16-year-old student — to the mall, to dinner and finally to Brown's house.

Lukosavich described on Aug. 19 at Brown's sentencing hearing how Brown took advantage of her at a time when Lukosavich said she needed a positive female role model.

"What I got was a manipulative sexual predator," Lukosavich said at Brown's sentencing hearing. "She got me to trust her, and that's when the a

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