The insurance company for the family of a boy who toppled an expensive sculpture at an Overland Park community center has sent a large check to reimburse the city.
Overland Park spokesman Sean Reilly says the family’s insurance company sent the city a check for $107,000 after a 5-year-old boy knocked over the sculpture last month. The sculpture, known as the “Aphrodite di Kansas City” was on display with more than 150 other works of art at the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center when it was broken.
“I cannot believe they allowed something so dangerous to be where kids play,” Sarah Goodman, mother of the boy who toppled sculpture, told KMBC 9 News.
Goodman said her family was there attending a wedding that day, and she was just around the corner from her son when the incident happened.
“That type of artwork had absolutely no business being in that community center,” said Goodman.
Video from that day showed Goodman’s son, Troy, reaching up and appearing to hug the statue before it crashes to the ground. Goodman said her son was cut by glass from that sculpture.
She believes a sculpture of that value should have been secured or roped off.
(Read more: KMBC)