.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will stand up trial on complaints that he intimately misused a slight observing a judge's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela calculated that both the accusation and also the evidence provided by the prosecutor had ample merits to warrant a trial. Valenzuela would certainly rule on a verdict at the litigation, which carries out not possess a collection date yet.Franco was placed on Big league Baseball's limited checklist in July, sources had told ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Republic levied three fees against him for a claimed sexual relationship with a then-14-year-old woman. Franco, 23, had actually performed managerial leave as portion of a package between MLB as well as the players' affiliation. The contract featured a regulation that administrative leave, throughout which Franco was actually spent, would end if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco faces fees of sexual abuse, sex-related profiteering against a slight as well as individual trafficking. The charges hold a potential paragraph of up to twenty years.He is likewise under an MLB inspection under its own domestic brutality, sexual assault as well as little one abuse policy until the instance is actually resolved.Because Franco may certainly not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bail agreement, his inability to record permitted the Rays to seek the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the daddy of the woman, who in January submitted a criticism against Franco, reached out to a deal with Franco's legal representatives and removed his complaint. The terms of the agreement were not revealed during the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Workers Article writer based in the Dominican Republic.