.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco are going to stand up trial on complaints that he sexually mistreated a slight complying with a court's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela established that both the allegation and also the documentation provided due to the district attorney had enough benefits to necessitate a hearing. Valenzuela will rule on a judgment at the trial, which carries out not possess a set day yet.Franco was actually placed on Major League Baseball's restricted listing in July, resources had informed ESPN, after district attorneys in the Dominican Republic levied three costs against him for an alleged sexual partnership with a then-14-year-old lady. Franco, 23, had gotten on managerial leave as part of a bargain in between MLB and also the players' affiliation. The arrangement included a provision that management vacation, in the course of which Franco was spent, would certainly finish if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco experiences fees of sexual assault, sex-related profiteering against a small as well as human trafficking. The fees lug a potential paragraph of approximately twenty years.He is actually additionally under an MLB examination under its residential physical violence, sexual assault as well as little one abuse policy until the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco can not leave the Dominican Republic under his bail agreement, his incapability to document allowed the Rays to seek the positioning of Franco on the limited list.Also on Thursday, the papa of the female, who in January submitted a complaint versus Franco, connected with an arrangement along with Franco's legal reps and also removed his issue. The relations to the deal were actually not divulged during the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Staff Author based in the Dominican Republic.