A court in the United States has sentenced a gay couple from Georgia to 100 years in prison, convicting them for sexually abusing their two special needs sons they adopted.
The two accused, William and Zachary Zulock, have been convicted without the possibility of parole, The New York Post reported, citing the Walton County District Attorney's office.
William Zulock, 34, and Zachary Zulock, 36, adopted the two brothers from a Christian special-needs agency. The children are now 12 and 10. While William served as a government employee, Zachary worked in the banking sector. The couple raised the boys in the Atlanta suburb under the guise of a happy family. However, the unspeakable atrocities the boys had been suffering at the hands of the couple were unearthed much later.
Walton County District Attorney Randy McGinley commented on the court order saying that both the convicts were responsible for creating a "house of horrors" and placing their "extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else," according to WSB-TV.
"The depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is not greater than the resolve of those that fought for justice and the strength of the victims in this case. The resolve I have seen from these two young victims over the last two years is truly inspiring," the District Attorney told WSB-TV.
How The Sickening Crimes Of The Couple Were Brought To Light
Back in 2022, the Walton County deputies raided a home in Loganville on July 27 after they received inputs about child sexual abuse material being downloaded by a man.
Upon interrogating the suspect, they learned that there was someone in the county who was "producing homemade child sexual abuse material with at least one child who lived in the home," New York Post reported, citing the sheriff's office.
On the same day, a search warrant was executed to conduct a raid at the Zulocks' house. During the search, the deputies found the boys, who turned out to be the sons of the gay couple. It was then that the authorities found out that William and Zachary had been sexually abusing their adopted sons, forcing them to have sex with them, and filming them to make pedophilic pornography.
Evidence also showed that the couple bragged about abusing their sons to their friends. One of the friends told the police that Zachary had once sent a message saying, "I’m going to f–k my son tonight. Stand by," along with images of one of the boys being abused.
The couple also allegedly used social media to pimp the two brothers to at least two men in a local pedophile sex ring, the New York Post reported.
The Zulocks were both booked at the Walton County Jail the next morning.They were charged with aggravated child molestation, sexual exploitation of a child, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. William has been additionally charged with child molestation, the report noted.
The couple, arrested in 2022, has pleaded guilty to the charges of aggravated sodomy, sexual exploitation of children, and child molestation.