This is a sad story of how these children who had one strick against them already in life (being orphans) were further harmed in the name of research.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/special/experiment/experiment.htm
Ethics & Orphans: the ‘Monster Study’
Shortly before World War II, researchers tried to prove a leading theory on stuttering by conducting secret experiments on orphans. The tests caused lifelong psychological damage to some. For more than 60 years, the experiments were kept secret and the orphans didn’t know what had been done to them. Here is their story, uncovered by the Mercury News.
Helen