Pink did had a disclaimer that this game can make you cry and angry...
Thats a bit of an exaggeration. Or liberal interpretation of said disclaimer i'd say. If i see such disclaimer for example i still wouldn't expect gore, cannibalism, suicide appearing in detailed fashion on screen. Even in AL we experienced something of an implied death, and it was quick and clean.
Systematically staying away from Maya, thus ignoring her can lead to things but if someone is so uninterested in her plot then why bother. From both player and storyteller point of view. If i don't care it would just annoy me to get another one-liner detailing Maya's grim fate. That would be very poor storytelling, guilt tripping the player is bad. And if i care about her plot because i pursue her plot its obvious why i don't wanna see it happen and the player would want a resolution that is not something of a bad end no matter what.
So dark themes doesn't mean that dark. Should not mean. Suffering is worse than death. Thats why the death in AL didn't cause such backlash as some thought it would. Because quick, painless, one-time thing it was. Now depicting the transition of a desperate but good girl into forced drug addiction and prostitution is entirelly different. Thats something i'm not expecting to see.
I can imagine just dancing on the edge of it, like for example Maya tries to but when she sees the guy's cock she bails. Something like that would fit the tone of the story.
BUT.. there is a huge but here. Derek already showed that he is actually quite overprotective of her sister. Plus Josy is here too and will be very close to Maya. So this whole prostitution thing is very unlikely with people like those two around her. Would require quite a juggle from dpc to make it happen in a way the player could actually believe none could've interrupted it. Especially if the player is interested in Maya and would try to intervene. Both Derek and Josy would be prone to alert the mc in case the danger would be real.