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The gay couple raised the children “under the guise of a happy home” in an Atlanta suburb and supposedly had a picture-perfect life.
The kids were reportedly adopted from a Christian special-needs agency.
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A gay couple in Georgia, US, has been sentenced to 100 years in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing their adopted sons. The two men even recorded their pedophilic activities and offered the kids to their friends. The case started in 2022 when Walton County deputies found some evidence of child sexual abuse uploaded to a Google account. While investigating the matter, the department found Hunter Lawless, who revealed that he received the material from a person named Zachary Zulock, The New York Post reported.
The police continued their search and found that Zulock was living with William Dale as a gay couple and they had adopted two kids, now 10 and 12 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 revealed during an interaction with WSB-TV.
“The depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is not greater than the resolve of those who 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,” he added.
During the interrogation, Hunter Lawless claimed that Zachary Zulock used to inform him about raping the kids on Snapchat. “I’m going to f— my son tonight. Stand by,” read one of his text messages. Zulock also shared recorded footage which was distributed later through the Google link.
The kids were reportedly adopted from a Christian special-needs agency. The gay couple raised the children “under the guise of a happy home in an affluent Atlanta suburb”. They supposedly had a picture-perfect life. Zachary Zulock was working in a bank and his partner William Dale was a government employee.
The two allegedly manipulated the boys to go out with at least two guys in a local paedophile sex ring using social media. After a suspected ring member was discovered downloading child porn, the couple was tracked and taken into custody. Dale and Zulock both were sentenced to a hundred years in prison without the possibility of parole.