.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Gulf Rays shortstop Wander Franco will definitely stand up trial on charges that he intimately violated a minor complying with a court's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela calculated that both the complaint and the documentation provided by the prosecution possessed enough advantages to require a hearing. Valenzuela will conclude on a decision at the hearing, which performs not have a set time yet.Franco was actually positioned on Big league Baseball's limited checklist in July, sources had actually said to ESPN, after district attorneys in the Dominican State levied 3 costs against him for a claimed sex-related connection along with a then-14-year-old girl. Franco, 23, had actually performed managerial leave of absence as component of a bargain in between MLB as well as the gamers' affiliation. The arrangement included a regulation that administrative leave of absence, in the course of which Franco was actually paid, would certainly end if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco faces fees of sexual harassment, sexual profiteering versus a small and also human contraband. The costs lug a possible sentence of around twenty years.He is actually also under an MLB investigation under its own domestic brutality, sexual abuse and also kid abuse policy till the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco can certainly not leave the Dominican Republic under his bail agreement, his incapacity to file enabled the Rays to go after the positioning of Franco on the limited list.Also on Thursday, the father of the gal, that in January filed a problem versus Franco, connected with a deal along with Franco's lawful reps and withdrew his complaint. The relations to the contract were actually not revealed throughout the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Personnel Writer based in the Dominican Republic.