.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Gulf Rays shortstop Wander Franco are going to stand up trial on complaints that he intimately mistreated a small following a judge's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela found out that both the accusation as well as the evidence provided due to the prosecutor had sufficient values to require a litigation. Valenzuela will conclude on a decision at the trial, which carries out not have a collection day yet.Franco was positioned on Major League Baseball's restricted listing in July, sources had told ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Republic levied 3 costs against him for an alleged sexual relationship with a then-14-year-old woman. Franco, 23, had been on management leave as part of a deal in between MLB and the gamers' organization. The deal featured a stipulation that administrative leave, in the course of which Franco was actually spent, would certainly finish if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco deals with costs of sexual harassment, sexual profiteering against a small and human contraband. The fees hold a prospective sentence of around twenty years.He is actually also under an MLB inspection under its residential violence, sexual assault and also little one abuse policy up until the instance is actually resolved.Because Franco can not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bond arrangement, his failure to report permitted the Rays to seek the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the daddy of the woman, that in January filed a criticism versus Franco, reached out to an agreement along with Franco's legal agents and removed his complaint. The relations to the agreement were actually certainly not disclosed during the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Personnel Writer located in the Dominican State.