A west-central Illinois county sheriff regrets he ever signed up for Facebook today, as a derogatory post he admits making is beginning to circulate around the Internet. “I am extremely sorry,” Schuyler County Sheriff Don Schieferdecker told AOL News this afternoon. “I have spent over 30 years of my life here giving public service, and I have never intentionally done anything to hurt anyone for any reason. … All I can do is say I am sorry. … I am extremely sorry [and] I beg people’s forgiveness.” Schieferdecker made the comment under a photo of what appears to be a young boy with his mouth hanging open. The poster wrote: “Look, I found a fag,” to which Schieferdecker replied in a post that has apparently been removed: “Yup and his mouth is open, his glasses are off, he’s ready, little fag Jew boy.”

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