It was September 15, 1986 when patrons and fast food workers heard crying that’s coming from Burger King’s bathroom. Much to their surprise, an employee who went to investigate found a newborn tucked under the sink with nothing but a red sweater wrapped around the child. The newborn was just hours old when her unidentified birth mother left her in the food chain’s bathroom.
The abandoned newborn was later adopted by Brenda and Carl Hollis. The supportive adopted parents told Deprill about her biological mother at the age of 12 when she was working on a family tree for a school project. They then handed her newspaper clippings about how she was found.
Katheryn Deprill, now 31, used Facebook last 2014 as her means to find her biological mother. Deprill said she isn’t holding any grudges towards her birth mother because she wouldn’t have known what situation her mother was in and completely sets the past behind her.
Her plea for help went viral and has reached many TV networks, thousands of people including her birth mother who was then also on a search for the baby she abandoned at the food chain restaurant’s bathroom stall. Cathy Pochek, birth mother, then seeked legal help from attorney John Waldron to arrange them a meeting the moment she heard her daughter was looking for her.
Deprill said she shares a strong resemblance to Pochek which she described as “It looked like I was looking in a mirror.” She refuses to relive the abandonment and is absolute of keeping a relationship with her estranged birth mother.