.Sep 26, 2024, 03:06 PM ETTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco are going to stand hearing on indictments that he intimately misused a minor following a court's judgment Thursday in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Judge Pascual Valenzuela figured out that both the allegation as well as the documentation offered due to the prosecutor had enough benefits to necessitate a litigation. Valenzuela will rule on a judgment at the hearing, which carries out not have a collection date yet.Franco was placed on Major League Baseball's limited list in July, sources had told ESPN, after district attorneys in the Dominican Republic imposed 3 costs versus him for an alleged sex-related relationship along with a then-14-year-old gal. Franco, 23, had performed administrative vacation as part of a deal between MLB and the gamers' affiliation. The contract consisted of a stipulation that administrative vacation, during the course of which Franco was spent, would certainly end if he was charged.Editor's Picks1 RelatedFranco deals with costs of sexual assault, sex-related profiteering against a slight and human contraband. The fees carry a potential sentence of around twenty years.He is also under an MLB investigation under its own residential violence, sexual abuse and kid misuse policy till the scenario is actually resolved.Because Franco may not leave the Dominican Republic under his bail arrangement, his incapacity to record enabled the Rays to go after the placement of Franco on the restricted list.Also on Thursday, the papa of the gal, that in January submitted a complaint against Franco, got to a contract along with Franco's lawful agents and withdrew his problem. The relations to the contract were not revealed during the course of the hearing.Juan Arturo Recio is actually an ESPN Workers Author located in the Dominican Republic.