Two Georgia men who were convicted in the horrific sexual abuse of their two adopted sons will be spending the rest of their lives behind bars.
A judge sentenced William Zulock, 34, and his husband Zachary Zulock, 36, to each serve 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Walton County District Attorney’s office.
The boys — two brothers who are now 12 and 10 years old — were adopted from a Christian special-needs agency by the couple in 2018.
The sickening abuse was believed to have taken 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,” District Attorney Randy McGinley said, according to WSB.
“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,” McGinley noted.
“The resolve I have seen from these two young victims over the last two years is truly inspiring.”
The couple raised the two boys in an affluent Atlanta suburb, and depicted the perfect life to the outside world, according to the outlet.
However, the Zulocks regularly raped and sodomized the boys, and filmed the abuse to provide videos for other pedophiles.
They were also accused of using social media to pimp the boys to at least two men in a local pedophile sex ring, WSB reported.
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The so-called dads were arrested in 2022 after an alleged member of the local sex ring was caught downloading child porn.
During the investigation, he told authorities how the couple made porn with boys living in their house.
Deputies got arrest warrants for the home in Oxford, a suburb of Atlanta, identified the Zulocks as suspects and worked with the Georgia Division of Family and child Services to protect the children.
At the time, investigators found recordings from surveillance cameras, which showed the men committing sexually abusive acts against both boys in different parts of the house.
Both men pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, sexual exploitation of children.
William entered a guilty plea for charges of incest, while Zachary pleaded not guilty to two counts of incest.
However, a judge later found him guilty of the incest charges following a brief bench trial, according to the DA’s office.
Zachary was also found guilty of pandering for a person under 18.
After hearing arguments from the prosecution and defence, the judge followed the State’s recommendation and sentenced both men to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by life on probation.
The men won’t be eligible for parole for the entire 100 years.