Sosua's only chance for survival now that North Coast tourism is drying up is to have a liveable environment where decent people can live in condos and villas. Where the children on the street are wearing school uniforms and being children, not sex slaves. But that will not happen as long as the town is filled with sleaze. Garbage attracts garbage.
Very few of the chicas you see working in Sosua are actually from sosua.
They come from all over the country,most of them are 18 or older, they come to make money to support their child, to make money for college or the family sends them there to make money for the household. It has been going on for years and will continue for years. No one is going to change that. If you do not like it you need to not go there. And by the way, there are girls working all over the country making money the same way. Sosua is just a place they can come to without being seen. They come for a week or two and then they go home.
If there are those who are so offended by the sight of a sad young girl with and older man (which I rarely see) but the next time you see it, make a new friend, give the girl 3000 pesos and tell her she doesnt have to go with the old man tonight.