Two Georgia men who were convicted in the sickening sex abuse of their two adopted sons are headed to prison for the rest of their lives.
A judge decided that married gay couple William and Zachary Zulock – once darlings of the LGBTQ scene in Georgia – will each serve 100 years in prison for sodomizing their young sons, recording the sex acts and providing videos of the abuse to other pedophiles, 11Alive reported.
The horrific abuse was believed to take place when the boys were as young as three and five years old.
‘These two defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else,’ Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney Randy McGinley said at their sentencing.
‘However, 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.’
In August, William Zulock, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated sodomy, child molestation, incest, and two counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Zachary Zulock, 36, entered into his own guilty plea on October 21 for aggravated sodomy, child molestation, and sexual exploitation of children. Zachary had a bench trial for the two incest counts and was found guilty by Judge Jeffrey L. Foster.
Following arguments from the prosecution and the defense, Foster adhered to the state’s recommendation and sentenced both men to 100 years behind bars without the possibility of parole, followed by probation for life.
But due to the seriousness of their offense, neither of them will be eligible for parole until the entire 100 years is up, ensuring they’ll die in prison.
In their initial search of Zulocks’ posh home in the Atlanta suburbs, police reviewed two weeks worth of footage from interior surveillance cameras, which showed the men sexually abusing the children in several different parts of the house.
The case against the couple began on July 22, 2022, when the Walton County Sheriff’s Office got a tip from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes unit.
Investigators received an alert from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) uploaded to a Google account with a Walton County IP address.
After obtaining a search warrant, investigators raided the Zulocks’ home and discovered over seven terabytes of digital evidence, home surveillance footage, and cell phone data that had contained graphic images, videos and text messages discussing the abuse.
In subsequent interviews, both men admitted they had spent years sexually abusing their sons, whom they had adopted in 2018 from a now defunct Christian agency.
This involved them sodomizing the boys and forcing them to perform oral sex on them, they told police.
