{"id":74001,"date":"2026-05-25T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/rays-franco-criminally-responsible-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-but-will-not-be-jailed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:58:17","slug":"rays-franco-criminally-responsible-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-but-will-not-be-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/rays-franco-criminally-responsible-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-but-will-not-be-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays\u2019 Franco criminally responsible for sexual abuse of minor but will not be jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Girl\u2019s mother sentenced to 10 years in prison<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Shortstop has yet to contact his team<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence, a Dominican judge ruled on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his decision, Judge Jos\u00e9 Antonio N\u00fa\u00f1ez considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion and blackmail by the minor\u2019s mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually trafficking her daughter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/25\/rays-franco-criminally-responsible-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-but-will-not-be-jailed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl\u2019s mother sentenced to 10 years in prison Shortstop has yet to contact his team Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence, a Dominican judge ruled on Monday. In his decision, Judge Jos\u00e9 Antonio N\u00fa\u00f1ez considered &#8230; <a title=\"Rays\u2019 Franco criminally responsible for sexual abuse of minor but will not be jailed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/rays-franco-criminally-responsible-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-but-will-not-be-jailed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rays\u2019 Franco criminally responsible for sexual abuse of minor but will not be jailed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}