Mother Teresa’s Train to Johns Hopkins Hospital is an archival investigation by D. Bear, built from hundreds of original medical and legal records. It traces one child’s journey from the wreckage of a train in India to a prestigious U.S. hospital — where faith and science collided, and a toddler’s body became a testing ground. Despite the illegal medical experiments performed on her small body those experiments that failed. she walks in spite of Hopkins, not because of Hopkins. She later defied every medical prediction, walking when doctors said she never would.
Mother Teresa’s Train to Johns Hopkins Hospital is an archival investigation by D. Bear, built from hundreds of original medical and legal records. It traces one child’s journey from the wreckage of a train in India to a prestigious U.S. hospital — where faith and science collided, and a toddler’s body became a testing ground. Despite the illegal medical experiments performed on her small body those experiments that failed. she walks in spite of Hopkins, not because of Hopkins. She later defied every medical prediction, walking when doctors said she never would.
The archive exposes how, under a court-appointed joint guardianship and before any legal adoption, surgeons at Johns Hopkins performed experimental, high-risk procedures without legal consent, oversight, or any ethical review documented in the records released to date. What was framed as “innovation” now reads as exploitation; an orphan’s body used to advance medicine behind closed doors.
The archive exposes how, under a court-appointed joint guardianship and before any legal adoption, surgeons at Johns Hopkins performed experimental, high-risk procedures without legal consent, oversight, or any ethical review documented in the records released to date. What was framed as “innovation” now reads as exploitation; an orphan’s body used to advance medicine behind closed doors.
Set against a wider pattern that includes Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and the Baltimore Lead-Paint Children, this project traces how Church-run institutions such as the Missionaries of Charity and major medical centers like Johns Hopkins intersected in one child’s life; revealing how faith, law, and medicine erased her protections. Created for education, accountability, and historical accuracy, the archive invites journalists, researchers, and the public to confront a hidden chapter where faith built the bridge and medicine crossed every line.
Set against a wider pattern that includes Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and the Baltimore Lead-Paint Children, this project traces how Church-run institutions such as the Missionaries of Charity and major medical centers like Johns Hopkins intersected in one child’s life; revealing how faith, law, and medicine erased her protections. Created for education, accountability, and historical accuracy, the archive invites journalists, researchers, and the public to confront a hidden chapter where faith built the bridge and medicine crossed every line.
Nobody protected Little Deepa.
Nobody protected Little Deepa.
This is my way of protecting her now.
This is my way of protecting her now.
By restoring her history,
By restoring her history,
her journey,
her journey,
& her voice from silence.
& her voice from silence.
