Kansas City Bills Parents $132000 After Child Damages Glass Sculpture

One of the families may be responsible for a towering statue thrown by their child at Tomahawk Ridge Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas.

Photo surveillance camera shows a 5-year-old boy knocking on a statue displayed in Overland Park, Kansas. His mother said it was an accident. (Overland Park)

The safety camera took over everything and the baby showed a hug before walking. The child later returns to the statue and appears to be hanging on it. The statue falls, and the little boy walks with him.

According to Sarah Goodman, the child's mother, the incident occurred last month at a wedding reception, local outlet KSHB reports.

The art piece "Aphrodite de Kansas City" was shown at a community center in Overland Park when the boy was hurt on May 19, the Kansas City Star reported. He was attending a wedding with his parents at the time.

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"Maybe I hugged her," the mother of the girl, Sarah Goodman, told the newspaper. "Maybe he hugged my son from the torso because he's a nice boy and a friendly lover who just graduated from preschool."

The insurance company in Overland Park sent a letter accusing Goodman and her husband of neglect for failing to monitor the child.

"I do not want to devalue their art, but I can not pay for it," Goodman told the paper.

She said her son did not damage the sculpture intentionally. She also said the city should have been better protected.

Kansas City artist Bill Lions invented sculpture. He told the newspaper that it was unsafe and irreparable.

"I want to recover the amount I spent and what I think he deserves," he said.

Goodman said she had submitted the bill to her insurance company to solve it, according to the newspaper.

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