LYNWOOD — Former Firebaugh High School Principal Jonas Silverio is due back in court Friday under the representation of Los Angeles-based attorney Kenneth J. Kahn.

Previously defended by Harold Greenberg, Silverio in early December requested a public defender.

Kahn will be Silverio’s fourth attorney. The former adminisrtator is facing 18 counts of committing lewd acts on children, two of whom are former Firebaugh High School students.

Several calls into Kahn’s L.A. office were not returned. A secretary in his office said she could not “confirm” whether or not Kahn was representing Silverio.

Four victims testified in an Oct. 20 preliminary hearing. Along with an extensive investigation — which is still ongoing — the District Attorney’s Office at the hearing identified four victims in the case but were allowed by the judge to bring in a fifth witness to testify. The incident involving the fifth witness occurred in 1995 and thus the statute of limitations law prevented the prosecution from including her in their charges against Silverio. She was 16 years old at the time.

Greenberg objected to the fifth witness citing the overlap of the statute of limitations, but the judge allowed it and nearly six hours later, the judge ordered Silverio to stand trial.

The hearing for Silverio, who is still being held at Twin Towers on $1.2 million bail, is in Dept. D at 8:30 a.m. before Compton Superior Court Judge John Cheroske.