A New Jersey mom claimed she was held at a café against her will after her 3-year-old daughter accidentally knocked over and broke a $1,600 marble table.
The incident happened at the Hazelnut Cafe in Lavallette, where surveillance footage viewed by NJ Advance Media showed the little girl hitting the table with her foot while her mother, Kathy Denman, was waiting in line to pay for their coffee and ice cream, she said in a viral TikTok video .
Kathy Denman claimed on TikTok that she wasn’t allowed to leave a Jersey Shore cafe without forking over her license and credit card info after her 3-year-old daughter broke a pricey table. TikTok/@beautihut
“I was completely humiliated and embarrassed,” she said, adding that she’s cried since the incident, which brought the nearly 110-pound m