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Pol fumes as we pay for BIG baby

WASHINGTON — It’s a crying shame.

A 350-pound man who wears diapers, goes night-night in a king-sized crib, sucks on a pacifier and hangs out in a gigantic playpen finances his bizarre big-fat-baby fetish on the taxpayers’ dime — and the Senate’s top budget watchdog is demanding a time-out.

Stanley Thornton and his live-in former nurse/surrogate mommy, Sandra Diaz — who is equally overweight — both collect disability benefits to support their adult-baby lifestyle in Redding, Calif.

“We need to make sure the disability program is available only to people who are truly disabled,” fumed Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) yesterday.

The bizarro baby lifestyle went viral on the Internet after it was aired earlier this month on National Geographic Channel’s “Taboo” — and Coburn fired off a letter to the Social Security Administration requesting an investigation.

Thornton, 30, claims he once worked as a security guard but “had an accident and now claims disability benefits for a heart condition.” Yet he was filmed shopping, ironing and doing carpentry around his house.

It isn’t clear why Diaz, who manages to cuddle her oversized bundle of joy, is on disability.

Neither responded to e-mails for comment.