A woman who, as a newborn, was deserted in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania Burger King more than 27 years ago finally has been reunited with her mother.
Katheryn Deprill, 27, who launched a viral manhunt for her mom with a desperate message on her Facebook page, met her mother for the first time at a law office in Allentown, Pa., on Monday afternoon.
“I got the hug that I had wanted for the last 27 years,” an ecstatic Deprill said. “I asked if I could have it, and she said, ‘absolutely,’ and just held her arms open, and the rest is history.”
“Looking for my birth mother,” Deprill wrote. “She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post.”
Deprill declined to give the name of her mother because the missing mom was afraid of all the recent media attention.
The mom said that she was only 17 when she gave birth in 1986 and she hid the pregnancy from her parents, according to WFMZ-TV.
Deprill said her mother expressed regret during their meeting. But Deprill said she forgave her “110 percent.”