User blog comment:Night at the Kashmir/My Theory why Sally was really sent to Fontaine's./@comment-3967731-20140925213320/@comment-1500935-20140926210725

@Unownshipper

Indeed, I didn't think of Adelaïde Tobet but the orphanages should have been closed in the early months of the year 1959. Still, could have been reopened temporally as the war made more and more victims, and so more orphans (boys and girls) than the Little Wonders facilities could handle. It's not even like the signs to the orphanages were removed both at Apollo Square and Siren Alley. Also by holding pens I just meant they were not fit for housing the equipments required for making Little Sisters. So yes you can say they were the source.

I think Ryan did not see the potential of the Plasmid market at first (see Fontaine Must Go), and Fontaine was able to secure its monopoly by employing the few genius scientists who could work on it (Tenenbaum and Suchong) and simply building the only facilities which were able to produce raw ADAM. Still, if Ryan wasn't informed by spies (spying competitors' businesses would go against his own morality), he probably learned the truth about Little Sisters when he took over Fontaine Futuristics, as they were need to produce enough ADAM for research. They could have been rumors about the disappearance of orphans though.

I remember Levine saying that they needed a character behind a kidnapping ring in Rapture and Cohen was perfect for the role. Cohen also claims publicly to be taking care of the orphans after the closure of the Little Sisters' Orphanages (Doing Well by Doing Good), but it's possible his men (Ryan's security? Sullivan was keeping an eye on artists, he killed Culpepper and lied to Booker about Sally) were also taking any kid they could to cash in more money (Ryan was probably paying top coins for more Little Sisters at the moment). For the Lutz's daughter, if it was a middle class couple they were probably easier to lie to).

I agree on your last paragraphs. It's possible that the facilities kept a front appearance similar to Ryan's preparatory school, where the rich kids received a standard education, but the rest was dedicated to change the other girls into Little Sisters. Also, people would be less inclined to ask question about girls coming and out of those places.