C. Henry Kempe's Teddy Bear

​Origin
Dr. C. Henry Kempe, born Karl Heinz Kempe, was a pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse. in 1962, he and Dr. Brandt F. Steele published "The Battered Child Syndrome." He obtained a Nobel Peace prize for his cotribution to the treatment and prevention of child abuse, and his work also led to the creation of laws against child abuse in all 50 states. Born into a Jewish family in Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime, Kempe fled as a teenager and came to America.

This teddy bear belonged to young Kempe and was offered to the many children he spoke to and helped through their abuse, and absorbed both their experiences and survival.

​Effects
This teddy bear seaks to comfort those who have faced abuse in their life, primarily abuse suffered as a child, and compels those that fit the criteria to hug them. After being hugged, the bear will cause the users to re-experience their abuse, most often by seeing an apparition of their abuser as they are inflicted with the same physical, emotional, or mental torment they had previously endured. However, this is most often non-fatal, and after having survived, the wounds will disappear and the users will feel stronger mentally and emotionally, having come to terms with their abuse, and will overall feel like a better person.

​Collection
This artifact was the second to last artifact collected by deceased agents Michael Korss and Oto Barry, and the last one collected before their falling out. It was found after a high school student going over items for a toy donation drive had found it and re-experienced past abuse from an apparition of her mother.