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kpete

(71,997 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:27 PM Mar 2014

Woman Abandoned as Baby in Burger King Finds Birth Mom

http://media.nbclosangeles.com/images/654*368/Burger-King-Baby-Grown-Up.jpg

WOW talk aboutFORGIVENESS!

A woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned as a baby in a Burger King bathroom says she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention.

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Waldron told The Morning Call that the woman said that, as a teenager, she was raped while traveling abroad and became pregnant. The woman said she hid the pregnancy from her parents and, when she gave birth, felt she could not take her newborn to the hospital.

Waldron said the woman recently had launched her own search for the daughter she gave up.

Deprill said her mother expressed regret during their meeting. Deprill said she forgave her "110 percent, absolutely."

more:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Burger-King-Baby-Finds-Her-Mother-252329741.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand

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Woman Abandoned as Baby in Burger King Finds Birth Mom (Original Post) kpete Mar 2014 OP

Okay now shenmue Mar 2014 #1

Yep, I understand how you're feeling....Someone's grating onions here... Ecumenist Mar 2014 #2

She found her? Oh how wonderful they were looking for and found each other uppityperson Mar 2014 #3

Might as well go with the original story from the Morning Call starroute Mar 2014 #4

I figured that was a lot of the story, a panicked teenager who couldn't trust hospitals Warpy Mar 2014 #5

Minnesota has a law that allows newborns to be left Jenoch Mar 2014 #6

California, too XemaSab Mar 2014 #9

All states now have some form of Safe Haven law. Thor_MN Mar 2014 #10

What a wonderful ending! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #7

I think I got something in my eye XemaSab Mar 2014 #8

For all who had judged the mother so harshly... Ino Mar 2014 #11

omg, I read that headline as... cui bono Mar 2014 #12

I'm glad that they had that Dorian Gray Mar 2014 #13

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Okay now

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:31 PM

Mar 2014

My eyes have water in 'em and stuff.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)

2. Yep, I understand how you're feeling....Someone's grating onions here...

Reply to shenmue (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:33 PM

Mar 2014

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

3. She found her? Oh how wonderful they were looking for and found each other

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:33 PM

Mar 2014

starroute

(12,977 posts)

4. Might as well go with the original story from the Morning Call

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:39 PM

Mar 2014

http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-burger-king-baby-finds-mom-20140325,0,1745263.story

Deprill, known internationally as the "Burger King Baby," came face-to face with her birth mother Monday for the first time since Sept. 15, 1986, when the mother, then a scared teenager, left Deprill at the restaurant on South Fourth Street in Allentown.

"Oh my God, I'm so excited!" Deprill of South Whitehall Township said Tuesday. "I have literally not wiped the smile off my face. I never in a million years thought I'd find her."

"It's definitely the best scenario possible," Deprill said. "She's very normal. She's very sweet."

Deprill confirmed to The Morning Call that she had finally met her mother, in what she had hoped would be her last media interview. She said she's been blitzed by media requests since she took to Facebook on March 2, looking for her birth mother.

Warpy

(111,278 posts)

5. I figured that was a lot of the story, a panicked teenager who couldn't trust hospitals

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:41 PM

Mar 2014

and left her baby in a place that high enough traffic would allow the baby to be found quickly.

I'd have forgiven her completely, too.

No girl or woman should ever be shamed for sex, pregnancy, or childbirth.

Shame rapists, instead.

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)

6. Minnesota has a law that allows newborns to be left

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:03 PM

Mar 2014

at any hospital without any criminal charges or asking for the identity of the parents.

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)

9. California, too

Reply to Jenoch (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:32 PM

Mar 2014

Babies can be left at (I think) fire departments and other places.

According to the website:

"From January 1, 2001, to September 30, 2013, 560 newborns have been surrendered in California, and as of September 30, 2013, 45 newborns have been surrendered in 2013."

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

10. All states now have some form of Safe Haven law.

Reply to Jenoch (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:32 PM

Mar 2014

Granted, that was not the case in 1986.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,641 posts)

7. What a wonderful ending!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:03 PM

Mar 2014

I am so happy they found each other...

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)

8. I think I got something in my eye

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:28 PM

Mar 2014

Ino

(3,366 posts)

11. For all who had judged the mother so harshly...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:24 AM

Mar 2014

She was a kid. Blaming HERSELF for having been raped. Facing this all alone. No matter that it may not have been horrible had she told someone. She was afraid. She did the best she could.

Waldron said the mother told him she became pregnant after she was raped at age 16 by a stranger during a family vacation in a foreign country. Ashamed and embarrassed, he said, she hid the pregnancy.

The mother, according to Waldron, said she gave birth in her bedroom at age 17 without her parents' knowledge and drove to Burger King to drop off the baby, knowing the restaurant would be crowded and someone would find the infant.

"She kissed the baby on the forehead and left," Waldron said. "She was a kid in high school. Back then, you couldn't just go to a hospital and drop the baby off, no questions asked.

"It wasn't, 'I don't want the child.' It was because of what happened. … Sometimes rape victims blame themselves even though they're not at fault."