.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Gulf Rays shortstop Wander Franco will definitely stand up hearing on indictments that he intimately misused a slight observing a judge's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela determined that both the accusation and the evidence shown due to the prosecution had ample qualities to necessitate a litigation. Valenzuela would certainly conclude on a verdict at the litigation, which does not have a set date yet.Franco was placed on Big league Baseball's restricted list in July, resources had actually said to ESPN, after prosecutors in the Dominican Commonwealth levied three costs against him for a claimed sex-related connection along with a then-14-year-old girl. Franco, 23, had been on management vacation as aspect of a package in between MLB and also the players' affiliation. The deal included an arrangement that administrative vacation, throughout which Franco was actually spent, would certainly end if he was actually charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco faces fees of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation against a minor and individual trafficking. The fees carry a potential paragraph of approximately twenty years.He is additionally under an MLB investigation under its own residential violence, sexual abuse and little one misuse plan until the instance is actually resolved.Because Franco may not leave the Dominican Republic under his bond arrangement, his lack of ability to document made it possible for the Rays to pursue the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the daddy of the woman, who in January filed an issue against Franco, reached a contract with Franco's legal reps and withdrew his complaint. The relations to the contract were actually not revealed throughout the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Staff Article writer based in the Dominican Commonwealth.