Georgia husbands who abused 2 adopted sons sentenced

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A Georgia couple who pleaded guilty in August to sexually abusing their two adopted sons will now spend 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.

William Zulock pleaded guilty to six counts of aggravated sodomy, three counts of aggravated child abuse, two counts of incest and two counts of child sexual exploitation. His husband, Zachary Zulock, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sodomy, three counts of aggravated child abuse, two counts of incest, two counts of sodomy, three counts of child sexual exploitation and two counts of battery on a person under 18 .

“Those involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case will never forget what they saw and heard in this case,” District Attorney Randy McGinley said in a statement Monday. “These two defendants truly created a house of horrors, putting their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else. But the depth of the defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is no greater than the determination of those (who ) fought for justice and the strength of the victims in this case.”

McGinley said the “determination” of the two young victims, who were in third and fourth grade at the time of Zulock’s arrest, “over the last two years is truly inspiring.”

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William and Zachary Zulock have been sentenced to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole for abusing their two adopted sons. (Alcovy Judicial District Attorney’s Office/ Walton County Sheriff’s Office)

The Zulock family was initially investigated after Georgia authorities received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reporting suspected homemade child sexual abuse material (CSAM) uploaded to a Google account with a Walton County IP address . Upon further investigation, Walton County Sheriff’s Office deputies learned that the Zulocks lived with the victims who appeared in CSAM.

Authorities interviewed the Zulocks on July 22, 2022, and they both admitted to sexually abusing their adopted sons over a period of time, according to the DA’s office.

Zachary Zulock and William Zulock at a wedding. (Zachary Zulock/Instagram)

Investigators later collected electronic evidence, including surveillance cameras from inside the house, showing multiple instances of the defendants “committing sexual abuse in various parts of the house,” the DA’s office said in a news release Monday. Other electronic evidence included cellphones with graphic images, videos, text messages and social media.

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Zachary Zulock and William Zulock stand at a wedding. (Zachary Zulock/Instagram)

“I am grateful for the hard work of so many to achieve an appropriate outcome in this case,” McGinley said. “The hard work of law enforcement put an end to the abuse victims suffered, and this resolution will help victims continue their healing process. William and Zachary Zulock will now spend 100 years in prison without parole. This virtually guarantees that victims will need not to worry when they get older if their abusers are free.”

McGinley further emphasized the importance of adopting children in need, but added that “anyone who does that and then abuses those children deserves extremely harsh consequences and decades in prison.”

Zachary Zulock and William Zulock pictured at a wedding. (Zachary Zulock/Instagram)

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“The sentence imposed not only appropriately punishes these defendants for their repeated selfish actions, but also sends the message to the public that such actions will never be taken lightly,” McGinley said in his statement.

Two other men, Hunter Clay Lawless and Luis Armando Vizcarro-Sanchez, were prosecuted and sentenced to prison after agreeing to testify against the Zulocks. Lawless admitted to receiving CSAM from Zachary Zulock and pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation. Vizcarro-Sanchez pleaded guilty to assault on a person under 18 and computer theft.