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A Georgia couple that pleaded responsible in August to sexually abusing their two adopted sons will now spend 100 years in jail with out the opportunity of parole, in keeping with the Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
William Zulock pleaded responsible to six counts of aggravated sodomy, three counts of aggravated little one molestation, two counts of incest and two counts of sexual exploitation of kids. His husband, Zachary Zulock, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of aggravated sodomy, three counts of aggravated little one molestation, two counts of incest, two counts of sodomy, three counts of sexual exploitation of kids and two counts of pandering to an individual underneath 18.
“Those concerned with the investigation and prosecution of this case will always remember what they needed to see and listen to on this case,” District Attorney Randy McGinley mentioned in a Monday assertion. “These two Defendants really created a home of horrors and put their extraordinarily darkish needs above every little thing and everybody else. However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep because it will get, is just not larger than the resolve of these [who] fought for justice and the power of the victims on this case.”
McGinley mentioned the “resolve” of the 2 younger victims, who have been in third and fourth grade on the time of the Zulocks’ arrest, “during the last two years is actually inspiring.”
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The Zulocks initially got here underneath investigation after Georgia authorities received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reporting suspected home made little one sexual abuse materials (CSAM) uploaded to a Google account with an IP deal with in Walton County. Upon additional investigation, deputies with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office realized that the Zulocks lived with the victims who appeared within the CSAM.
Authorities interviewed the Zulocks on July 22, 2022, they usually each admitted to sexually abusing their adopted sons over a time frame, in keeping with the DA’s workplace.
Investigators later collected digital proof together with surveillance cameras from inside the home displaying a number of cases of the defendants “committing sexual abuse in numerous components of the home,” the DA’s workplace mentioned in a Monday press launch. Other digital proof included cell telephones containing graphic photos, movies, textual content messages and social media messages.
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“I’m grateful for the arduous work of so many to acquire an applicable final result on this case,” McGinley mentioned. “The arduous work of regulation enforcement put an finish to the abuse suffered by the victims and this decision will assist the victims proceed their strategy of therapeutic. William and Zachary Zulock will now spend 100 years in jail with out parole. This all however ensures that the victims won’t have to fret as they get older about their abusers being free.”
McGinley additional confused the significance of adopting youngsters in want however added that “anybody who does so after which abuses these youngsters deserves extraordinarily harsh penalties and many years in jail.”
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“The sentence imposed not solely appropriately punishes these Defendants for his or her repeated egocentric actions but additionally sends the message to the general public that such actions won’t ever be taken calmly,” McGinley mentioned in his assertion.
Two different males, Hunter Clay Lawless and Luis Armando Vizcarro-Sanchez, have been prosecuted and sentenced to jail after agreeing to testify in opposition to the Zulocks. Lawless admitted to receiving CSAM from Zachary Zulock and pleaded responsible to sexual exploitation of kids. Vizcarro-Sanchez pleaded responsible to pandering to an individual underneath 18 and laptop theft.