We live in a world where children are sexualized at an early age. The DR is one of the worst offenders. When it happens once, you are looking at a situation where the individual on either side needs a change of mindset.
When it's culturally ingrained, what are you going to do?
Keep in mind some expats love the DR because the country represents anarchy to them. You can do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it. Dominicans feel exactly the same way. No rules. Well, there are rules, but the weak, ineffective, and corrupt judicial system makes it so that you can get out of any entanglement with a fist full of pesos if they are handed to the right people.
And on a micro level, we have instances where the mothers are in cahoots in prostituting their own daughters. This woman is an absolute pig for what she did to her daughter, but regardless of how much in cahoots the daughter was in all this, she is still 15 years old.
Here is another point-Frank Reyes has no business even knowing these type of people. I run into this all the time. Young guys who say they are going to either the DR or Colombia bragging about how the're going to hang out with some drug dealer or other type of hustler who has a mansion and a yacht. Ask them if they know anyone from the professional ranks and they look at you like you're crazy.
Reyes may have been trolling the gutters for his fun, and because of that he put himself at risk for no reason. Discretion goes out the window with these types because barrio lowlives are harder to corral than a wild warthog covered in Vaseline. Whether you pay them off in exchange for silence or not, they'll still find a way to wreck things for you if you let the situation get out of control.
Someone from the upper classes, someone with something to lose (like a reputation) and a sense of shame, is more likely to keep things quiet.
Reyes should not have had these people on his farm to shovel chicken shiit, much less socializing with them.
Regardless of what happens going forward, some are going to look at these two (the mother and the daughter) as straight-up whores. Everyone else is going to question Reyes and others will never see him the same way again. Either way he loses.