.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco are going to stand trial on indictments that he intimately abused a slight complying with a court's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela calculated that both the allegation as well as the evidence provided by the prosecution possessed ample values to warrant a litigation. Valenzuela will rule on a verdict at the litigation, which does not have a collection date yet.Franco was actually put on Big league Baseball's restricted listing in July, resources had actually told ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Commonwealth levied 3 costs against him for a claimed sexual relationship along with a then-14-year-old lady. Franco, 23, had gotten on management leave of absence as aspect of a deal between MLB as well as the players' affiliation. The deal included a regulation that management leave, in the course of which Franco was actually spent, would certainly end if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco experiences fees of sexual abuse, sex-related profiteering against a slight and also human trafficking. The fees lug a prospective sentence of as much as 20 years.He is likewise under an MLB investigation under its residential violence, sexual abuse and kid misuse policy up until the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco can not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bond deal, his incapability to document made it possible for the Rays to seek the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the daddy of the female, who in January submitted a complaint against Franco, reached out to an arrangement along with Franco's legal reps and withdrew his grievance. The regards to the agreement were actually not revealed during the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Staff Author located in the Dominican Republic.