Some people give their child to God when they are born. Roger Roger, 41, thinks his parents gave him to the devil.
He reasons that’s why he turned to substances before getting into more severe crimes as he got older. Roger also thinks that’s why he became the ring leader of a Costa Rica-based telemarketing scheme that defrauded over 400 people out of $4 million, he said at a Tuesday morning sentencing in federal court in Charlotte.
But at age 37 in a Costa Rican prison — where he stayed before being extradited to North Carolina in February 2023 — Roger called out to God for the first time. Since then — he told a judge Tuesday — he thinks whatever punishment he receives is God’s will disciplining him…