.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will definitely stand up litigation on complaints that he intimately mistreated a slight complying with a court's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela calculated that both the allegation and also the documentation shown by the prosecution had ample qualities to warrant a trial. Valenzuela will rule on a verdict at the hearing, which performs not have a set date yet.Franco was put on Major League Baseball's limited listing in July, sources had informed ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Republic imposed 3 costs versus him for a claimed sexual connection along with a then-14-year-old gal. Franco, 23, had performed managerial leave as part of a deal between MLB and also the players' organization. The deal consisted of a regulation that administrative leave, throughout which Franco was actually paid, will finish if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco encounters fees of sexual assault, sex-related exploitation versus a slight and human trafficking. The costs hold a potential paragraph of around twenty years.He is also under an MLB examination under its own domestic brutality, sexual abuse and also child misuse policy up until the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco may not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bond agreement, his inability to report allowed the Rays to seek the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the dad of the female, who in January submitted a problem against Franco, reached an agreement with Franco's legal reps and also removed his problem. The relations to the contract were actually not disclosed during the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Personnel Writer located in the Dominican Republic.