Fuming beau leaves tot on stoop – cops

AN ANGRY ex-boyfriend abducted, then ditched his former lover’s toddler son outside a Harlem building Thursday morning, police sources said.

The 22-month-old boy is safe and sound, and now, cops are asking the public’s help finding the vengeful beau.

Antonio Staton, 22, and the boy’s mom dropped the tot off at Patricia’s Childcare Services on W. 127th St. and Malcolm X. Blvd. Thursday morning, then headed to the Bronx together, sources said.

The two got into an argument, went their separate ways, and Staton circled back to the day care center to retrieve the child, sources said.

Staton isn’t the boy’s father, but staff at the day care saw him with the mom earlier in the day, and thought it OK to let him pick up the child, sources said.

He left the boy in a foyer at a townhouse on W. 132nd St., near Frederick Douglass Blvd. just before 10:40 a.m., then put a table across the entrance to keep the tot from escaping, cops said.

Staton tossed the boy’s diaper bag in a nearby garbage can and headed north on Eighth Ave., cops said.

A woman who lives in a basement apartment found the child on the steps at about 11 a.m. and called police.

“I was on my out for an appointment and I saw a head behind the table,” she said. “I looked over and the baby started whimper for me to pick him up.”

She looked around and so one was searching for the toddler, so she called police. “When I gave the baby to the officer and the baby started crying, ‘Mommy,’ it brought tears to my eyes,” she said. “I’m glad it was me that found the child and not somebody that could do it harm.”

The city’s Administration of Children’s Services took custody of the boy. Cops released his photo (above), and the mom called police after she couldn’t find her son at day care. The child was still in ACS custody as police investigated Thursday night, sources said.

Public records show the state hit the center with violations last June and July for failing to maintain files on who’s authorized to leave with the children.

Its executive director, identified in public records as Patricia Holder, did not return a message seeking comment.