"Castillo, who has lived in the U.S. for 25 years, had claimed he was trying to help the girl and that he didn’t understand his actions were illegal, the release said.

“We would expect he would be familiar with our cultural norms by (this) time,” said Stephanie Fritts, chief deputy district attorney."

Cultural norms?  How about our laws?  Yeah, he was trying to help her.  Right.