A man accused of stalking his biological mother because she spurned his attempts to be a part of her life sobbed yesterday as he told a jury, “She said she loved me.”
“My [intent] was to make her see who I am and to love me,” said Roger Siegel about thousands of nasty, curse-laden telephone messages he left on his mother’s office answering machine over 2 ½ years beginning in 2002.
Siegel said he received a few cordial letters from the Queens Legal Aid lawyer who put him up for adoption almost 40 years ago, but that he couldn’t handle her wish to sever all ties.
The San Diego-based mattress salesman admitted that he called the lawyer under the guise of running a television survey, then dropped the act and told her who he really was.
“There was dead silence. I told her, ‘I love you,’ and she said she loved me, too,” a teary-eyed Siegel said before throwing his head into his arms.