GA Couple at Center of Child Abuse Case Sentenced to Effective Life Terms

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WSB Atlanta: GA couple who abused 2 adopted boys in ‘house of horrors’ sentenced to 100 years

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Walton County couple will spend the rest of their lives in prison after they were convicted for adopting two young boys, then sexually abusing them.

Deputies arrested William and Zachary Zulock in 2022 at a home in unincorporated Loganville.

Last week, a judge sentenced them to 100 years in prison. Neither defendant is eligible for parole, according to the DA’s office. “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else. 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,” District Attorney Randy McGinley said in a statement.

As Channel 2 Action News previously reported, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home after they learned a man named Hunter Lawless was downloading child pornography.

After interviewing him, Lawless said he’d been collecting those materials and identified another suspect living in Oxford.

Lawless also told deputies that suspect he’d mentioned was making child pornography with a child living at their home, leading the sheriff’s office to get a search warrant for the Zulock household.

Following the investigation, Lawless pled guilty to sexual exploitation of children and agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of the Zulocks.

When deputies got arrest warrants for the men living at the house in Oxford, they identified the Zulocks a suspects and worked with the Georgia Division of Family and child Services to protect the children in the home.

Investigators found at the time that both Zulocks, who were the adoptive parents of brothers living there, had been recording themselves committing sexually abusive acts against both boys.

Additionally, investigators found evidence that a man named Luis Vizcarro-Sanchez had received messages from Zachary Zulock about abuse of one of the child victims. He later pled guilty to pandering for a person under 18 and multiple counts of computer theft.

On Aug. 20, William Zulock entered a guilty plea for multiple charges, including aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, incest and sexual exploitation of children.

On Oct. 21, Zachary Zulock pled guilty to charges of aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, sodomy, sexual exploitation of children and pandering for a person under 18, but pled not guilty to two counts of incest. A judge later found him guilty of the incest charges following a brief bench trial, according to a release from the DA’s office.