User blog comment:Night at the Kashmir/My Theory why Sally was really sent to Fontaine's./@comment-3967731-20140925213320/@comment-3967731-20140926094042

Here's the problem though, the fact that girls from the orphanage were made into Little Sisters wasn't public knowledge (at least it seems that way in Taking the Taint Out of Fontaine). Really now, who would ask? If the majority of the girls are true orphans, then they don't have relatives to come look for them. I can only see this move as being a major backfire for him in the long run. Also, it contradicts BioShock 2 (again!) as Elise Tobet was forced to leave her daughter Adelaide there when she couldn't afford to feed her.

The orphanages aren't a holding pen (that appears to be Little Wonders in Point Prometheus), they're the source. If he closes them down, then he can't get more candidates to be made into sisters.

If we are to assume that he didn't know what significance the girls held, then how could he have been a part of the Plasmid business? Are we too assume that Fontaine had a total monopoly on the industry until the nationalization or that Ryan only used the very meagerly producing Sea Slugs?

I've never seen anything to indicate that Cohen was in charge of the kidnappings (Mariska Lutz identifies them as "Ryan's men" in Masha Come Home). We can presume that Little Wonders had a boarding school set up as a front, but the girls in attendance still have parents who would be inquiring about their education and well being. What do they do when a parent comes by to see how their girl is developing?