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Brooklyn prosecutors charged a mom and dad yesterday with treating themselves to more than $1 million from a trust created for their disabled son.

Edwin Sanango, 39, and Marlene Romero, 37, allegedly dipped into the trust after the March 2008 death of their son, Eddie, who had been institutionalized since his birth in 1993.

The trust was established after Eddie’s parents won a $2 million negligence judgment against the hospital where he was born.

The trust was supposed to cover Eddie’s living expenses while he could still qualify for Medicaid to cover his health-care costs.

Upon his death, authorities said, the parents were supposed to reimburse the city’s Human Resources Administration for those costs with money from the fund.

Instead, they used it as a personal piggy bank, authorities said.

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