CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) – A woman testified Wednesday that a former longtime state legislator who served as her high school principal kissed her and forced her to touch him in his office when she was a 17-year-old student.

The former student at Wilcox-Central High School in Camden described the November 2010 encounter from the witness stand at James Thomas’s trial on a charge of sexual abuse. Opening statements took place in the morning for the trial that’s expected to last one or two days.