It was meant to be a sculpture that children could touch and climb on, but after complaints by parents that a new Myrtle the Turtle sculpture in Boston’s Myrtle St. Park was burning children, the sculpture is being moved and put behind a fence.

According to the Boston Globe, parents complained earlier this summer that the sculpture, created by Boston’s famed Make Way for Ducklings artist Nancy Schön was heating up in the sun and causing burns to children.

Ryan Woods, commissioner of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, told the Globe the playground will remain closed through Labor Day as crews move the statue into a garden area at the park and fence it off.

“It will be an element in the garden, instead of a playground structure,” he told the Globe.

Boston 25 reports the turtle statue is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

The station reported in June that parents had begun calling the city and posting on its 311 messaging app complaining of the turtle getting hot in the sun.

“Kids are getting burned. It is dangerous and should not be in a playground,” a parent complained, posting a photo of a temperature scanner showing the turtle reading 133.7 degrees.

Schön was not initially pleased at the decision to move her interactive artwork and fence it off.

“They were going to take the sculpture away because one kid hurt his little finger?” she asked the Globe. “It’s a very sad commentary that we have to deal with this kind of thing, when there are people who should be worrying about guns and people being killed rather than kids being burnt by a beautiful sculpture.”