Orange County Register reports that a Los Angels man was charged with sexual molestation of three young female students when he was a principal at that high school. He was arrested at Los Angeles airport when he came back from the Philippines. He was charged with 17 counts of child molestation related crimes.
Jonas Silverio, the ex-principal, 40, resigned from his position as principal at Los Angeles Lynwood's High School earlier this May and took a trip to the Philippines after Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators and detectives began investigating the child molestation case alleged against him.
Silverio was accused of sexually molesting two female students of Firebaugh High School's volleyball team and he was the coach of the team during that time.
The incidents of the sexual molestation of the two girls against Silverio happened in 2001 and 2005. However, investigators have found out that there was another case of the child molestation of a young girl in the Whittier.
The ex-principal of the Los Angeles Lynwood high school was taken into custody at Los Angeles airport on July 8 when he just came back from the Philippines. He was not aware that a warrant had been already issued for his arrest.
Jonas Silverio has been formally charged with 17 counts of committing a lewd act on children and his bail amount is $1 million.
