Nathaniel Fons, the three-year-old dumped at St. Patrick's Cathedral by his mother's friends, is leaving NYC: A judge said, "This child belongs in Florida. His parents are in Florida. He's lived in Florida." Well, his parents are in Florida, but both are behind bars—his mother Erin Comeau passed a counterfeit $100 bill and his father Williams Fons violated his parole when he didn't register as a sex offender. While his paternal grandparents, who did raise him for a period, traveled to NYC in hopes of getting custody, Comeau recently said she wanted her mother, in Maryland, to raise the boy. The Administration for Children's Services, which is caring for Nathaniel, said the maternal grandmother feels she "had an obligation to her grandson and she wanted to fulfill it."
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