The LEO give them to traumatized children. This woman fits that description.
Her publicist gave them to her for effect. She'll need a Clintonian damage control effort of myriad media specialists to turn this all around and get it back to where she's the victim and worthy of all due oozing sympathy.
I was wondering if they gave her one of Dr. Laura's My Stuff bags. The bags her foundation used to put together for traumatized kids had stuffed animals and blankets in them. I knew someone who knitted afghans for her bags.