Tot grab bust

A VENGEFUL beau who abducted his ex-girlfriend’s toddler from a day care center — and then abandoned the little boy on a Harlem street — surrendered to cops Sunday to face kidnapping charges, police said.

Antonio Staton, 22, turned himself in at about 1 a.m. Sunday, three days after he ditched Alandria Clark’s son D.J. outside a W. 132nd St. townhouse, cops said.

Staton was hit with kidnapping, reckless endangerment and child endangerment charges. At his arraignment Sunday night, his Legal Aid lawyer said he suffers from “mental health issues.”

“He doesn’t currently live with his mother, but he would be able to go back there,” said Staton’s lawyer, Michael Baldwin. “I’ve spoken to the mother. He could get back on his medication.”

Staton was ordered held on $75,000 bail.

D.J. and his mom were reunited after a Family Court proceeding Friday, city officials said.

“It’s been horrible. It’s just been too much to deal with, and that’s why I’m here,” Clark said afterward. “I know he knows I’m coming for him. He knows I’m coming for him . . . . I’m gonna hug him and tell him I love him.”

Staton and Clark dropped her 22-month-old son at Patricia’s Childcare Services on W. 127th St. and Malcolm X Blvd. Thursday morning. The couple then got into an argument en route to the Bronx, police sources said.

They went their separate ways, and Staton circled back to the day care center and allegedly scooped up D.J.

“I’m upset with the day care,” Clark said Friday. “I want other women to, you know, talk to their day care people and make sure they know that you can’t just give their child to anybody.”

She later told CBS 2 that Staton followed her to the day care center at 8:30 a.m., then continued to follow her on her way to class.

Staton isn’t D.J.’s dad, but people at the day care who remembered him from earlier in the day released the child to him, sources previously told the Daily News.

He then took D.J. to W. 132nd St., near Frederick Douglass Blvd. around 10:40 a.m. and dumped the boy behind gates in front of a townhouse, cops said. They added that Staton put a table across the entrance to keep the tot from wandering out, tossed the boy’s diaper bag in a nearby trash can and walked off.

A woman living in the building’s basement apartment saw the boy crying, looked around for a parent and then called police. The city’s Administration for Children’s Services took custody of D.J. Thursday night, cops said.

Public records show the day care center was hit with state violations last year for failing to maintain proper records on who’s authorized to leave with children.

The city Health Department opened an investigation into the center Friday.