.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will definitely stand hearing on allegations that he intimately mistreated a slight observing a court's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela found out that both the allegation and the evidence offered by the district attorney had sufficient advantages to deserve a litigation. Valenzuela would rule on a decision at the trial, which carries out not possess a collection date yet.Franco was placed on Big league Baseball's limited checklist in July, resources had said to ESPN, after district attorneys in the Dominican Commonwealth levied 3 costs versus him for an alleged sex-related relationship along with a then-14-year-old female. Franco, 23, had actually been on managerial vacation as part of a deal between MLB as well as the gamers' organization. The deal consisted of a regulation that administrative leave of absence, during which Franco was paid, would certainly end if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco faces costs of sexual harassment, sex-related profiteering versus a slight and human trafficking. The fees bring a prospective paragraph of approximately 20 years.He is actually likewise under an MLB investigation under its own domestic violence, sexual assault and also youngster misuse policy till the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco can easily not leave behind the Dominican Republic under his bail contract, his inability to document enabled the Rays to go after the placement of Franco on the limited list.Also on Thursday, the father of the lady, who in January filed a criticism against Franco, reached an agreement along with Franco's legal agents and also withdrew his criticism. The regards to the contract were actually certainly not revealed during the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Personnel Writer based in the Dominican State.