.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will stand up trial on complaints that he intimately mistreated a minor following a court's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela established that both the complaint as well as the proof offered by the prosecutor possessed adequate advantages to call for a hearing. Valenzuela will conclude on a judgment at the trial, which carries out certainly not have a collection day yet.Franco was actually placed on Major League Baseball's restricted listing in July, sources had informed ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Commonwealth levied three charges against him for a claimed sex-related connection with a then-14-year-old woman. Franco, 23, had been on managerial vacation as aspect of a deal in between MLB and also the players' organization. The arrangement consisted of a stipulation that management vacation, throughout which Franco was actually spent, would finish if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco deals with costs of sexual harassment, sex-related profiteering against a minor as well as individual trafficking. The costs carry a prospective sentence of around twenty years.He is also under an MLB inspection under its own domestic physical violence, sexual abuse and little one abuse policy up until the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco can easily not leave the Dominican Republic under his bail contract, his failure to file permitted the Rays to go after the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the papa of the woman, that in January filed a complaint versus Franco, reached out to a contract with Franco's legal agents and removed his problem. The relations to the arrangement were certainly not disclosed in the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Staff Author based in the Dominican Commonwealth.