.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will definitely stand up trial on complaints that he sexually mistreated a minor following a court's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela figured out that both the complaint and the evidence shown by the district attorney possessed sufficient benefits to deserve a hearing. Valenzuela would certainly conclude on a verdict at the litigation, which carries out not have a set time yet.Franco was actually placed on Major League Baseball's limited listing in July, resources had told ESPN, after district attorneys in the Dominican Commonwealth levied three charges versus him for an alleged sexual partnership along with a then-14-year-old girl. Franco, 23, had actually performed managerial leave as part of a bargain between MLB and also the players' organization. The arrangement featured a regulation that managerial leave of absence, in the course of which Franco was actually spent, will end if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco experiences costs of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation against a minor and also individual contraband. The costs hold a prospective sentence of approximately 20 years.He is actually additionally under an MLB inspection under its residential brutality, sexual abuse and also kid abuse policy until the scenario is resolved.Because Franco can certainly not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bond deal, his incapability to file permitted the Rays to go after the placement of Franco on the limited list.Also on Thursday, the daddy of the woman, who in January submitted an issue versus Franco, got to a deal along with Franco's lawful reps and also removed his complaint. The relations to the agreement were actually certainly not divulged in the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Workers Article writer based in the Dominican Commonwealth.