Opening arguments have begun in R. Kelly’s long-awaited child pornography trial. The forty-one year old singer is accused of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl who prosecutors say was between thirteen and sixteen when the tape was made between Jan. 1, 1998, and Nov. 1, 2000. The alleged victim, now twenty-three, maintains she is not the girl featured in the infamous sex tape.

“A child doesn’t choose to be violated and placed on a videotape, a videotape that will live on forever — long after this child becomes an adult,” Cook County prosecutor Shauna Boliker told jurors during opening arguments.