SPRINGFIELD, Ohio —The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.

“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.

  • @ravhall
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    15 days ago

    Well, everything poos,

    and massive is relative.

    You should see my poos!

      • @ravhall
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        25 days ago

        You’ve never truly pooped until you pop a squat in your back yard.

        • Flying Squid
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          25 days ago

          I’ll take your word for it. I clean up enough dog poo out there as it is. And it’s much smaller than cow poo. Generally not as soft too.

          • @ravhall
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            15 days ago

            Cow poo is good fertilizer though. You’d have a beautiful garden.

              • @ravhall
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                25 days ago

                I wouldn’t recommend fertilizing your garden with your own poo!!

                  • @ravhall
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                    15 days ago

                    I think you would love a garden.