Ohio mother and daughter reunited after 54 years
Posted on AllSides March 21st, 2024
From The Center
In 1970, a 16-year-old, pregnant with a little girl, delivered her baby at Grant Hospital. In a meeting 54 years in the making, that woman and her daughter reunited at the hospital where she once said goodbye.
Now 70, mother Carla Lemaster said that policies at the time did not allow her to see her newborn or, years later, allow her to search for her.
“I was 16 and I became pregnant,” Lemaster said. “I was from a strict home. My parents loved me, but I was from a strict...