Willowbrook was built in the 1930s as a facility ... Others were used for medical experiments. Some were physically and sexually abused by staff. Shortly after Rivera's story, parents filed ...

Willowbrook State School’s first decade of operation dealt with outbreaks of hepatitis. To combat the disease and/or better grasp its effects, controversial medical experiments were conducted on ...

Together with former Staten Island Advance reporter Jane Kurtin, Aerts in 1971 walked through the doors of Willowbrook State ... starved and used as science experiments. Aerts, who died in 2021 ...

Many things have changed, including rules that outlawed medical experiments such as those done with Willowbrook residents who were given Hepatitis B. “There is a bar against experimentation ...