.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Gulf Rays shortstop Wander Franco will certainly stand trial on allegations that he sexually mistreated a small complying with a judge's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela identified that both the allegation and also the documentation presented by the district attorney possessed adequate values to necessitate a trial. Valenzuela will conclude on a verdict at the trial, which performs not possess a set day yet.Franco was put on Big league Baseball's limited list in July, sources had actually told ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Commonwealth levied 3 costs versus him for a claimed sexual partnership along with a then-14-year-old woman. Franco, 23, had actually gotten on management vacation as aspect of a deal between MLB and the players' affiliation. The agreement featured an arrangement that managerial vacation, in the course of which Franco was actually spent, will finish if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco encounters fees of sexual harassment, sexual profiteering against a small as well as human contraband. The fees bring a potential sentence of approximately twenty years.He is actually likewise under an MLB examination under its own residential violence, sexual assault and kid misuse policy until the scenario is actually resolved.Because Franco can certainly not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bail deal, his incapacity to file allowed the Rays to go after the positioning of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the dad of the female, who in January filed a complaint against Franco, got to an arrangement along with Franco's lawful reps and also removed his issue. The terms of the deal were actually not made known in the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Personnel Article writer based in the Dominican Commonwealth.