The ACS counselor hired despite being a convicted murderer — and who is now accused of violently hurling a 6-year-old boy into a filing cabinet — walked out of jail on Wednesday and admitted to tossing the tyke.

Jacques Edwards, 55, who is charged with assault, tried to downplay the incident and insisted the child landed in blankets.

“My boss didn’t want to know my side of the story. They refused to take my side of the story,” Edwards told The Post after he was bailed out of a Manhattan lockup.

“I threw him into blankets. He was on blankets. That’s why my boss don’t want me to tell my side of the story. He was on blankets.”

Edwards’ wife posted the bond that secured his freedom.

Before he could comment further, she told told him to pipe down and directed him into her black minivan before they sped away.

The 6-foot-3 Edwards – an ACS juvenile counselor – was arrested on Monday for allegedly roughing up the 6-year-old on Friday inside an agency youth shelter in Manhattan.

Edwards is accused of “shoving him head-first into the cabinet,” according to a criminal complaint.

The incident further embarrassed the troubled social service agency when it was found that Edwards was even employed by ACS – despite serving three decades behind bars for murder.

ACS Commissioner David Hansell blamed the bad hire on his predecessor but admitted he didn’t know how many more of his 7,000 employees have felony records.

Edwards was brought on board ACS in March 2014, less than two years after he was sprung on parole, records show.