A Walton County court has sentenced a gay couple resident in Georgia, the United States, William and Zachary Zulock, aged 34 and 36, to life in prison for sexually abusing their adopted sons.
According to The Economic Times, the court imposed 100-year sentences on each, without the possibility of parole in a ruling made last week. The victims, two brothers, are now 12 and 10 years old.
The Zulocks reportedly adopted the boys from a Christian special-needs agency and lived in an Atlanta suburb.
Zachary worked in banking, and William was a government employee.
The abuse reportedly involved forcing the children into sexual acts and creating pornographic videos.
Evidence revealed the Zulocks shared details of the abuse with others, with one instance involving Zachary sending a Snapchat message saying, “I’m going to f–k my son tonight. Stand by,” along with images of the abuse.
The Economic Times reports that the gay couple’s crimes became known after a member of a local pedophile ring was caught downloading child pornography.
The arrested suspect revealed the Zulocks’ involvement in producing child pornography with their adopted sons.
During their trial, both men pleaded guilty to aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, and sexual exploitation of children.
The District Attorney Randy McGinley was quoted as saying, “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else.”
McGinley further commended the victims’ strength, adding, “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.”
The development comes as President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to “stop the transgender lunacy” on day one of his presidency.
“I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,” the president-elect said at an event for young conservatives in Phoenix, Arizona.
He also vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports,” adding that “it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
