OXFORD, Ga. – Alcovy Judicial Circuit Court docket District Legal professional Randy McGinley introduced that the 2 Oxford males who had adopted two younger boys after which sexually abused them pleaded responsible to their crimes and had been sentenced to 100 years in jail.
William Dale Zulock and his partner Zachary Jacoby Zulock pleaded responsible in August and had been sentenced on Dec. 19, 2024 for his or her crimes.
The couple was arrested in the summertime of 2022 and charged with 17 counts every of varied counts of aggravated baby molestation and sexual exploitation of youngsters together with prices of aggravated sodomy, incest and pandering for individuals underneath 18.
The Defendants had been going through sentences for the next crimes:
William Zulock: Six counts of aggravated sodomy, three counts of aggravated baby molestation, two counts of incest and two counts of sexual exploitation of youngsters.
Zachary Zulock: Two counts of Aggravated Sodomy, three counts of aggravated baby molestation, two counts of incest, two counts of sodomy, three counts of sexual exploitation of youngsters and two counts of pandering for an individual underneath 18.
Based on a press launch from McGinley, after listening to arguments from each the State and the protection, the courtroom basically adopted the State’s sentencing suggestion for each defendants: 100 years in jail adopted by life on probation. Due to the character of the offenses, the defendants is not going to be eligible for parole for all the 100 years.
The case was prosecuted by McGinley, senior assistant District Legal professional Lacey Majors, sufferer companies director Kim Kelly, senior authorized assistant Melanie Sims, in addition to investigators Josh Chambers, Alicia Chandler, Eric Yarbrough and Melindy White. The case was investigated by the Walton County Sheriff’s Workplace with help from the GBI, together with their Cyber Crimes Middle, Walton County DFCS, the Walton County District Legal professional’s Workplace and others.
The investigation was initiated by the WCSO following a cyber tip from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters about suspected home made baby sexual abuse materials (CSAM) that had been uploaded to a Google account with an IP tackle in Walton County. WCSO investigators subsequently executed a search warrant at that tackle the place they met with Hunter Lawless who admitted to receiving and viewing CSAM. Lawless advised them he acquired the photographs and movies from “Zach Zulock.”
Lawless later pleaded responsible to sexual exploitation of youngsters and was sentenced to twenty years with the primary 12 years in jail and agreed to completely cooperate in any prosecution of the Zulocks.
Following additional investigation search warrants had been obtained for each Loganville and Oxford residences the place each Zachary and William Zulock lived with the victims, the 2 boys who had been adopted by the Zulocks a couple of years earlier than. Each defendants had been interviewed that evening and admitted to sexually abusing each boys over a time frame.
Proof seized included video and surveillance cameras from inside the home. GBI investigations went by greater than seven terabytes of video. Based on the press launch, thorough evaluation discovered movies of a number of incidents of the defendants committing sexual abuse in several elements of the home. Cell telephones had been analyzed which contained graphic photographs and movies of the abuse in addition to graphic textual content and social media messages concerning the sexual abuse.
As well as, by proof collected from the cell telephones, Luis Vizcarro-Sanchez was discovered to be receiving messages from Zachary Zulock about sexual abuse of one of many victims. Vizcarro-Sanchez later pleaded responsible to pandering for an individual underneath 18 in addition to quite a few counts of laptop theft through which he was stealing from his employer, the Loganville Kroger. He acquired a sentence of 60 years with the primary 15 years in jail in addition to a requirement that he testify in any continuing or trial of the Zulocks.
“I’m grateful for the onerous work of so many to acquire an applicable consequence on this case. The onerous work of regulation enforcement put an finish to the abuse suffered by the victims and this decision will assist the victims proceed their technique of therapeutic. William and Zachary Zulock will now spend 100 years in jail with out parole. This all however ensures that the victims is not going to have to fret as they get older about their abusers being free,” McGinley mentioned. “It can’t be burdened sufficient how vital it’s for our society to have people keen to undertake kids in want. However anybody who does so after which abuses these kids deserves extraordinarily harsh penalties and many years in jail. 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.
“These concerned with the investigation and prosecution of this case will always remember what they needed to see and listen to on this case. These two Defendants really created a home of horrors and put their extraordinarily darkish needs above every little thing and everybody else. Nonetheless, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep because it will get, will not be higher than the resolve of those who fought for justice and the power of the victims on this case. The resolve I’ve seen from these two younger victims during the last two years is actually inspiring.”
