The investigation into a Georgia, US couple accused of abusing their two adopted sons and using them to record child pornography has uncovered sordid new details.
A months-long investigation by Townhall revealed that 33-year-old William Dale Zulock and 35-year-old Zachary Jacoby Zulock allegedly used social media to prostitute their two primary-aged sons.
William Zulock, a civil servant, and Zachary Zulock, a banker, were charged in August 2022 with incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated pedophilia, sexual exploitation of children and prostitution of minors.
But the shocking investigation reveals more detail about the sickening abuse the boys suffered, reports the New York Post.
Walton County Sheriff’s Office
For the first time, it has been revealed that the two men allegedly sold their eldest sons, now aged 11 and 9, to two other men in a pedophile ring.
One of the men, 27-year-old Hunter Clay Lawless, told investigators that Mr Zulock invited him ‘on multiple occasions’ to take part in the sexual abuse of the boys, media outlet Townhall reported.
However, Mr Lawless claimed never to have had physical contact with either child.
Mr Lawless also claimed that Mr Zachary had sent him numerous messages on Snapchat, including one which allegedly read: ‘I’m going to fuck my son tonight’. The text was allegedly accompanied by footage of him sexually abusing the 11-year-old, according to the outlet.
Both men were arrested for soliciting an act of prostitution with the 11-year-old boy, according to the indictment.
The two men, who lived in Oxford, an affluent suburb of Atlanta, adopted the children through a specialized Christian adoption agency.
The adoptive fathers pleaded not guilty. They each face more than nine life sentences if convicted.
With information from New York Post.