The Ringmasters Behind Child Prostitution Ring To Be Sentenced - Media Silent!
They Trafficked Their Adopted Sons! Evil has no bounds.
I share this reporting here as it is unlikely you will see it elsewhere in the news.
This is nearing the conclusion of a nearly two year series of Townhall investigative reports by Mia Cathell outlined in the previous post below.
Is This How This Horrific Story Ends?1
July 02, 2024 | Townhall.com
Almost two years after the alleged ringleaders of a child prostitution conspiracy in suburban Atlanta were arrested, the gay Georgia couple could strike a plea deal with prosecutors and avoid trial.
Affluent LGBTQ activists William Dale Zulock and Zachary Jacoby Zulock are accused of raping their adopted special-needs sons—ages 6 and 8 at the time the sexual abuse allegedly started—on a weekly basis, filming the abuse, widely distributing the "homemade" child pornography to nearby pedophiles, and prostituting the children to these men, whom they had met on the gay hook-up app Grindr.
Attorneys for the Zulocks announced that they waived their right to a jury trial. They will "likely" be entering a guilty plea after previously pleading not guilty to 17 child sex crimes, some of which carry multiple life sentences.
Their next court date is tomorrow, July 29ᵗʰ which will give a definitive outcome.
As for the charges against the Zulocks, the sentencing guidelines range by statute:
Counts 1-3 and 5-7: Aggravated Sodomy; Counts 8-10: Aggravated Child Molestation
Minimum of 25 years in prison followed by life on probation
The court can also sentence them to any number of years above the 25-year minimum
They're not eligible for parole during this time of incarceration
The court could also sentence them to life in prison
A life sentence in Georgia, for such offenses, means 30 years in prison before a convict is eligible for parole
Counts 4 and 11: Incest
25 to 50 years in prison since the victims were under the age of 14
Counts 12-15: Sexual Exploitation of Children
5 to 20 years in prison
Counts 16 and 17: Pandering for Person Under 18
10 to 30 years in prison
While in lock-up, Zachary has been beaten up repeatedly, threatened with sexual violence, and drugged by his fellow detainees, according to what he told a family member over text. In vivid detail, Zachary described the anti-"ChoMo" (child molester) treatment he's been receiving at rock bottom of the clink's pecking order. Anyone who harms children, be it child murderers or rapists, belongs to the lowest rung of the hierarchical ladder and is subject to what's colloquially called "jail justice."
However, the defense's request for specific dates unwittingly sparked a forensic investigation into the surveillance system that the Zulocks had installed inside their home. Sixteen security cameras were positioned all over the premises, recording 24/7 and capturing everything—even the sexual assaults were allegedly "all on video filmed through multiple rooms."
Four terabytes of data were extracted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)'s crime lab so that the prosecution could match metadata to timeframes. In accordance, the state was inclined to charge the same-sex couple with each act of sexual abuse as investigators found them in the footage. Based on the GBI's findings of what was discovered in that extraction, the prosecution threatened to re-indict the Zulocks on "hundreds" of additional counts.
"Your Honor, I'm getting these implicit threats: 'Hey, if you look at the evidence, we're gonna charge your client with more. We're gonna try to send him to jail for 100 life sentences instead of 20' [...] In all my years at the bar, I have never been presented with that dilemma [...] I have never had the state say, 'I have hundreds and hundreds of hours of evidence. Good luck finding it.' I have never had that," Haldi said.
Haldi, astounded by the data's volume, added: "I had to look up terabytes on Google. One terabyte is [...] roughly the length of anywhere between 100 to 150 two-hour movies at the movie theater."
"Well, that is the law," Majors replied matter-of-factly. "We can't create and copy child pornography for you."
There are still suspects "out there" circulating videos of the abused boys, "less than a dozen" to whom Zachary, the cameraman, allegedly sent the child pornography, McGinley indicated. Two members of the child prostitution ring have since been captured, charged, and convicted under negotiated pleas. As part of the plea agreements, the convicted pedophiles agreed to testify at trial against the Zulocks.
~The update on Monday’s Trial will be posted here~