.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Gulf Rays shortstop Wander Franco will stand up litigation on complaints that he intimately abused a minor complying with a judge's ruling Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela found out that both the accusation as well as the documentation shown by the prosecution possessed adequate qualities to deserve a trial. Valenzuela will conclude on a verdict at the hearing, which does certainly not possess a collection day yet.Franco was actually placed on Major League Baseball's restricted listing in July, resources had actually said to ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican State levied 3 charges versus him for a claimed sex-related partnership with a then-14-year-old gal. Franco, 23, had been on managerial vacation as aspect of a bargain in between MLB as well as the players' organization. The deal included an arrangement that management vacation, during which Franco was actually spent, would end if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco deals with fees of sexual assault, sex-related exploitation against a minor and also human contraband. The costs carry a prospective paragraph of up to twenty years.He is actually also under an MLB examination under its own domestic violence, sexual assault as well as youngster misuse plan up until the situation is actually resolved.Because Franco may not leave the Dominican Republic under his bail deal, his lack of ability to document enabled the Rays to pursue the positioning of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the dad of the female, who in January submitted a problem versus Franco, got to an agreement with Franco's lawful agents as well as withdrew his complaint. The relations to the agreement were actually certainly not revealed throughout the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is an ESPN Staff Writer located in the Dominican Republic.