A 27-year-old woman has been reunited with her birth mother after a photograph she posted on Facebook asking for help went viral.
Katheryn Deprill has been described as the “Burger King baby” after being discovered in a Burger King bathroom just hours old, having been abandoned by her mother.
Deprill, looking to reconnect with her birth mother, posted a message on Facebook earlier this month with the words:
“I want her to know that I am not mad at her for what she did, however I have so many questions to ask her and also to start a relationship with my biological mother.
Please help me find her by sharing my post. Maybe she will see this.”
Her mother did see the message, and the pair were reunited in a tearful meeting on Monday.
Deprill’s mother was reportedly raped whilst travelling abroad and became pregnant aged 17. She was able to keep the pregnancy hidden from her parents, but knew that she was too young to take care of a child, and left the baby in a location it would quickly be discovered and taken into care.
