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.
William Zulock (right) and Zachary Zulock, a married gay couple, were each sentenced to 100 years in prison for sodomizing their young sons (pictured in this photo with matching shirts)
The case against the couple began in July when investigators got a tip 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. That IP address was linked to Zachary Zulock (left) and William Zulock
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.
Hunter Lawless (left) and Luis Vizcarro-Sanchez were two men that the Zulocks sent child sex abuse material to. Lawless was sentenced to 20 years and Vizcarro-Sanchez was sentenced to 60 years
Zachary Zulock and William Zulock were once the darlings of the LGBTQ scene in Georgia
The investigation into the Zulocks also revealed they were communicating with two other pedophiles – Hunter Lawless and Luis Vizcarro-Sanchez – about the abuse of their boys.
Arrest documents said Zachary Zulock messaged Lawless on Snapchat that he was going to ‘f**k his son’ and to ‘stand by.’ Lawless also told police the Zulocks offered their boys up to him ‘multiple times.’
Lawless was arrested after downloading a large amount of child porn that was traced by police to his Gmail address.
Lawless admitted he received child sex abuse material from Zachary and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison, with the first 12 to be served in prison.
Incriminating messages from Zachary were also Vizcarro-Sanchez’s phone. He pleaded guilty to pandering for a person under 18.
After also pleading guilty to the unrelated crime of stealing computers from his workplace, Vizcarro-Sanchez was sentenced to 60 years, the first 15 of which will be served in prison.
The couple was able to adopt their two sons, who are 12 and 10 years old now, despite Zachary having been accused of raping another boy in 2011. That allegation was reported to police but never investigated by prosecutors thoroughly enough to warrant charges.
Zachary Zulock and William Zulock were raising their sons in an affluent Atlanta suburb for the roughly three years they had custody of them.
Pictured: The Zulocks’ home in Georgia, which they were able to have built from scratch
Zachary (right) worked for a local bank branch while William worked for a local government customer service center, but somehow the couple were raking in $7,500-a-week
Zachary worked for a local bank branch while William worked for a local government customer service center, but somehow the couple were raking in $7,500-a-week.
They were able to build their dream home in an area where similar properties sell for $900,000.
Behind their façade of a happy family living in a beautiful home was the reality that they were regularly raping their children.
Zachary and William adopted the boys from foster care. The boys, then five and three, had been removed from their heroin-addicted parents and placed in foster care.
The pair said the abuse and the filming of that abuse occurred between 2019 and 2021.
In 2021, just a year before they were arrested on heinous sexual abuse allegations, the pair made inquiries about adopting a two-year-old girl.
The adoption agency they used was All Gods Children Inc, a now defunct special needs agency in Georgia. It’s unclear how extensive their checks were on the pair before they took in the boys.
