'I want to say thank you for not throwing me away': Woman, 27, launches quest to find mom who left her in a Burger King bathroom after giving birth



Katheryn Deprill was just a few hours old when she was found on the floor of a Pennsylvania Burger King by a customer in 1986

Authorities never found her mother and she was placed in foster care

On Sunday, Deprill, who now has 3 children of her own, posted a photo to Facebook asking for help to track down her biological mother

She said she has no anger towards her mother but wants to know if she has any siblings

Her photo has been shared thousands of times on Facebook



A woman who was dumped in a Burger King bathroom as a baby 27 years ago has launched a search to find her birth mother.

Katheryn Deprill became known as the 'Burger King Baby' after she was found wrapped in a shirt and crying on the bathroom floor of the restaurant in Allentown, Pennsylvania by a customer.



On Sunday, the 27-year-old from South Whitehall Township, posted a photo to Facebook of her holding a message asking for help - and it has since been shared thousands of times.

'Looking for my birth mother,' it reads. 'She gave birth to me September 15th 1986. She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old (in) Allentown, Pa.

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Search: Katheryn Deprill posted this plea on Facebook on Sunday - more than 27 years since she was found wrapped up and crying on the floor of a bathroom in a Pennsylvania Burger King

'Please help me find her by sharing my post. Maybe she will see this. Thank you.'

Deprill, who was about three hours old when she was found, was adopted by a local foster family and she has since gone on to marry, work as an emergency medical technician and have three children of her own.

She told WFMZ that she wanted to find her birth mother to ask questions she had always had about that day - and because she had always wondering if she had any siblings.



'I really want to see her and just ask her why and see if I have any brothers and sisters and anyone that looks like me,' Deprill said.

Found: An image taken by Deprill's adopted family shows her as a baby in 1986 after she was found

Scene: When she was found in this Burger King in Allentown, she was believed to be just hours old Discovery: A worker indicates the place where the baby was found wrapped in a shirt and crying

She added that she did not have any bitterness towards her mother especially because, now as a mother herself, she understood the expense of children.

'I would guess she just couldn't give me the life that she wanted, which is why she left me in a warm, public place,' she added.

In a message to her birth mother, she said that she did not want anything other than to say hello - and maybe have a hug.

'I just want to see you,' she said. 'I want to say thank you for not throwing me away, literally.'

Deprill's adoptive mother Brenda Hollis said she fully supported her daughter's plan.

Hitting headlines: The story made headlines as authorities tried to track down the mother - but could not Home: An image in Deprill's baby scrapbook shows her with her adopted mother, Brenda Hollia Support: Hollis said she was excited by the thought of her daughter finding her birth mother 'I think it's just kind of fun, like there's so many questions to be asked and it's just, I am so excited about it,' she told WFMZ. A massive search was launched to find Deprill's mother after she was dumped in the Burger King, which is still standing in Allentown.

A worker t old police he could remember seeing just one person who might fit the profile: a woman in her early 20s, with collar-length, frizzy sandy brown hair, the Morning Call reported.

He added that she was driving a blue 1970s car and that she'd headed south after leaving.

New life: She was adopted and now has a family of her own - her husband Mike and their three sons, Mason, 8, Gavin, 3 and Jackson, 7 months. But she said she would love to find out if she had any siblings

At the hospital, a nurse guessed that the baby was probably about three hours old. From how the umbilical cord was tied, investigators guessed that whoever delivered the baby had done so before.

Investigators dusted for fingerprints, searched trash cans, interviewed witnesses and followed up on seemingly promising tips - but nothing led them to the mother.

Deprill hopes that social media will turn up what investigators could not all those years ago.