The Springfield, Ohio woman whose social media post was among the first to spread a baseless claim of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating locals’ pets says she’s deeply regretful and never intended to cause harm to the Haitian community. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee told NBC News on Friday night. Lee had no firsthand knowledge of any such incidents involving the Caribbean immigrants when she posted on Facebook recently about a missing cat that her neighbor reportedly believed was butchered and eaten by one of the city’s Haitian residents. “My neighbor informed me that her daughters…