While trying to find articles about people in Springfield being charged
with animal cruelty, I found this instead...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never
-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099

"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.

"The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party.

"Newton told Newsguard that Lee's Facebook post misstated her story, and that the owner of the missing cat was 'an acquaintance of a friend' rather than her daughter's friend. Newton could not be reached for comment.

"Other posts have also contributed to the false allegations, including a photo of a man holding a dead goose that was taken in Columbus, Ohio, but was spread by some online as evidence of the claims about Springfield. Graphic video of a woman who allegedly killed and tried to eat a cat was also found not to have originated in Springfield but in Canton, Ohio, and does not have any connection to the Haitian community."


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