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Part 3: How Did an Accused Child Rapist Adopt

Two Children?
Mia Cathell | January 19, 2023 6:15 AM

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There were more than just warning signs that went unnoticed during gay activists
William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary "Zack" Jacoby Zulock's expedited adoption Here's What the Supreme Court Leak
process. A little over four years later, the adoptive fathers of two are now facing a Investigation Turned Up

laundry list of charges for unspeakable sex crimes they allegedly committed against
their young adopted sons, including rape, producing child pornography of the
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couple used to adopt the two boys; the role that Georgia's child-welfare system
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Townhall has learned that seven years prior to the adoption, Zachary was accused of
being a child rapist, but was never charged.

More than a decade ago, there was a 2011 probe into Zachary's alleged pedophilic
behavior when he was accused of luring a 14-year-old boy to a residence in Walton
County, the same jurisdiction as today's horrifying child sexual abuse case, and
having anal sex with the underage victim. But, the 2011 child rape case was shut
down and no charges were pursued against Zachary.

Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney Randy McGinley, who serves Walton County,
has now formally asked the Walton County Sheriff's Office to continue its previous
probe because he believes "it was closed without a whole lot of investigation into it."

"The 2011 case is being looked into by my office along with the Sheriff's Office,"
McGinley confirmed in an email to Townhall.

Lt. Zachary Barrett of the criminal investigations division told Townhall that Walton
County Sheriff's Office has been "in constant communication" with McGinley and the
district's attorney office "while navigating the case involving the Zulocks, including
after the initial arrest took place and detectives uncovered the past allegations." As
for why the 2011 case was closed, Barrett wrote:

“
The 2011 case was handled in a manner that is inconsistent with today's
current investigatory standards but the law enforcement officers in the
Criminal Investigations Division at that time have since retired. Current
WCSO detectives are assessing the case and seeking any leads that may
still yield charges. As with all cases, our detectives are diligent and

”
passionate when it comes to charging child molesters and will always
seek justice for the victim.

Walton County Sheriff's Office denied Townhall's public records request seeking a
copy of the incident report that the 2011 case is based on.  An investigator in the
sheriff's office contacted Det. Kristilee Cavoretto, the detective overseeing the current
Zulock investigation and a name near the top of the state's witness list, "just to verify
that information in the previous case will not hinder the active case at this time."
Cavoretto has reopened the 2011 case, the investigator replied. "Nothing is releasable
at this time."

Cavoretto's email signature includes this ironic quote:

Walton County Sheriff's Office detective leading the investigation's email signature

The boys could have been rescued as early as June 2020. Zachary had posted about a
Walton County Sheriff's Office deputy appearing outside his and William's old, small-
scale Snellville house, where the Zulock couple first lived with the boys until their
massive Oxford mansion was suspiciously constructed in record time mid-2020. A
police cruiser was parked at the end of the couple's driveway and a responding
deputy was on the scene because reckless teen drivers had hit the Zulock family's
mailbox.

"Luckily this was later in the day/night and [the boys] were not outside
playing....thank GOD," Zachary wrote on Facebook.

Walton County Sheriff's Office appearing outside of the Zulock house | Zachary Zulock
(Facebook)

Zachary, who affectionately calls his husband "My #partnerincrime for life," started

dating William in the summer of 2013 and the men married about four years later in
December 2017. Since they've been together, William said he "look[ed] forward to the
day" they can "start a family." The gay newlyweds then sought to locally adopt
children not long after their picturesque wedding.

Zulock wedding photos | Zachary Zulock (Instagram)

Adoption Process

How was a previously accused child rapist able to adopt two children with his newly-
wedded husband? Apparently, with ease.

In 2018, the Zulock co-defendants adopted the two brothers through All God's
Children, Inc., a now-defunct private special-needs adoption agency in Watkinsville,
which focused on children in the state who have "waited the longest" to be placed
with a family.

Facebook activity of Zachary Zulock liking All God's Children, Inc.

All God's Children matched families with special-needs children "considered more
difficult to place because they are older, need to be placed with their siblings or have
physical, mental or emotional/behavioral challenges," reads the agency's overview.

The brothers, now ages 9 and 11, already came from a broken home where their
biological parents were addicted to heroin, per a relative's knowledge. "I do think
they had every intention, and this is why they adopted them for this purpose,"
another family member, who spoke exclusively with Townhall out of concern for the
sibling pair's well-being, expressed. William and Zachary "preyed on" the children's
vulnerability as kids raised by struggling heroin addicts, Townhall's family insider
asserted.

Zachary Zulock's anniversary post on Facebook celebrating the adoption's

finalization on Nov. 7, 2018

As well as undergoing criminal background checks, William and Zachary were

required to attend mandatory pre-adoption parenting classes called Parents as
Tender Healers (PATH) trauma-informed training curriculum to "learn more about
parenting children with a history of losses." An agency caseworker also completed a
family assessment, which was presented to social workers throughout Georgia for
match-making, and a home study of the Zulocks. The entire undertaking took eight to
12 weeks.

Seven months after the boys moved in on March 30, 2018, Georgia's courts made the
"forever family" official on Nov. 7, 2018.

Zachary Zulock's post on Facebook announcing the adoption's expected completion

All God's Children, a former member-agency of the Georgia Association of Licensed

Adoption Agencies (GALAA)'s statewide network, had "work[ed] in partnership with
the Georgia Department of Human Services," which oversees the state's Division of
Family & Children Services (DFCS), "to find families for Georgia's waiting children,"
according to the agency's description.

All God's Children, Inc. at the First Presbyterian Church of Athens, Georgia | All God's
Children (Instagram)

Townhall contacted Georgia DHS regarding how much oversight and involvement it
had in the agency's operations.

Georgia DHS communications director Kylie Winton stated that the DHS's office of
residential childcare, a unit tasked with inspecting, monitoring, and registering child-
care facilities, licenses adoption agencies "for the placement of children in adoptive
homes" and that such licensed, private agencies "focus primarily on the adoption of
children who are not in the custody of DFCS."

However, some child-placing agencies (CPA) provide adoption services for children
"who are in permanent custody of DFCS through existing contracts," Winton wrote in
an email statement to Townhall. The state's DFCS provides each child-placing agency
"with guidelines for home approvals and qualifications for staff working under the
contract," Winton explained.

Townhall also asked if the 2011 case was ever officially brought up over the course of
the adoption process and if the alleged incident ever appeared during Zachary's
criminal records check when the co-defendant applied to become an adoptive
parent.

"DFCS child welfare and CPS records are confidential under state law," the DHS
spokesperson replied. "As such, we are unable to comment on the specifics of any
child welfare or abuse/neglect cases nor confirm or deny the existence of related
records."

As for how involved Georgia DFCS was in the agency's background checks, family
placement, and home visits, Winton said:

“
All families are required to undergo background checks—including
fingerprint-based checks of state and national crime information
databases and checks of child abuse and neglect registries—whether they
are working with a child placing agency (CPA) or DFCS. DFCS selects
families for children through a home study review process. Home visits

”
are made by both the CPA and the DFCS case manager monthly (at
minimum) through finalization.

"Everything seemed fine. I actually thought DFCS would be more scrutinizing with
them because they were a same-sex couple," the Zulock family insider told Townhall.
However, "it seemed like they passed everything with flying colors," the source said.

"The adoption process is moving along faster than expected!" exclaimed the
Facebook event page for William and Zachary's adoption shower, which was held at
their old Snellville house in March 2018, two years before the Oxford mansion's
construction.

A Facebook event page for the Zulock couple's adoption shower in March 2018 

The domestic non-profit dissolved in October 2022, according to the Georgia

Corporations Division. The family member, who was given access to Zachary's social
media accounts, saw that he had privately discussed on Instagram its impending
dissolution with All God's Children ex-executive director Emily Carole Bailey when he
was "going to refer someone to yall on the website."

All God's Children, Inc. business page | Georgia Corporations Division

"Unfortunately we had to close," Bailey wrote to Zachary, who reacted with the
crying-face emoji, in a private Instagram chat.

Zachary disclosed that he and William were deciding on adopting a girl, too: "[W]e are
still trying to decide if we want to try and adopt a girl," he said. "We are doing
awesome. The boys have changed so much from when we first met them. They aren't
even the same kids," he messaged, stating that their older child used to be in an
emotional-and-behavioral disorder (EBD) classroom.

Zachary Zulock revealed in an October 2021 private Instagram chat with the ex-
executive director of All God's Children, Inc. that he and William "want[ed] to try and
adopt a girl" | Zachary Zulock (Instagram)

"I just wanted to personally thank you and everyone who was involved in our process.
The boys truly changed our lives," he said.

"It makes me so happy to hear this," Bailey wrote back. "So glad you and the boys are
thriving." Zachary then asked Bailey for a personal recommendation on another
adoption agency. To which, Bailey recommended two agencies "open to same sex
families": Bethany Christian Services, the most influential and largest conservative
Christian adoption agency in America, and CHRIS 180, the first and largest non-profit
organization in Georgia "to openly celebrate and serve LGBTQ+ youth."

"Thanks sooooo much Emily," Zachary messaged, pinging a heart reaction.

The ex-executive director of All God's Children, Inc. recommended two adoption
agencies that provide adoption services for same-sex couples | Zachary Zulock
(Instagram)

Flash forward to this past summer, the county's DFCS office was "notified about the
need for emergency protective placement for two young children" and joined Athens-
Clarke County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program (ACC-SANE) advocates, who
provided forensic medical attention to the abused Zulock boys, in the midnight July
rescue operation at the family's mansion.

Both boys were placed in DFCS custody. "They made us give up our parental rights on
Aug. 1..." William, who signed over custody of the children to the state at an August
hearing, said in a recorded jailhouse call shared with Townhall.

"I really don't want them back in foster care, because they don't deserve that,"
William said.

Hypocrisy

Zachary had lambasted the children's former foster parents in a private Messenger
chat from July 2020 with a Facebook friend.

"And yes a lot of kids are sexually abused, especially in foster care. Some people only
foster for the [money], and don't give a sh*t about the kid(s)," Zachary wrote. "The
boys foster parents were not bad people, however, they only did it for the money."

Zachary Zulock's private Messenger chat in July 2020 lambasting the children's foster
parents and child sexual abuse in the foster-care system | Zachary Zulock (Facebook)

"To abuse a child (physical, mentally, or sexually) is despicable [...] Our legal system is
so F*cked up," Zachary messaged.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Zachary emphasized: "I have always believed that kids
are a RED line not to be crossed. You don't attack physically (of course), verbally or
anything to a child [...] We are...making our boys lives better and full of love."

"I could never foster because I have a HUGE heart and I would get attached to the
child and would want to adopt them all..." he typed, after stating they're hoping to
adopt a toddler-aged girl next. "We would prefer like a 2 or 3 year old," Zachary wrote.

"They only get to be kids for such a small amount of time," Zachary said. "Let them
enjoy it."

In the same chat, Zachary was invited to go on a ride-along with the Facebook friend's
police husband. "...[P]ersonally, even as a white man, I have had a bad feeling and a
couple experiences that ended fine over my life," Zachary replied. "About cops."

An old Facebook friend invited Zachary Zulock on a police ride-along in a private

Messenger chat | Zachary Zulock (Facebook)

Zachary had ranted on Facebook about the need to reform the foster-care system and
adoption process in America. "All kids deserve a loving and safe home," Zachary
wrote in one post. "How many may be tempted by...prostitution?" he asked in
another.

Out of the 672,594 foster children documented in 2019, how many will "Get the love
the[y] deserve?" Zachary questioned.

Zachary Zulock ranting in a November 2018 post on Facebook about kids deserving "a
loving and safe home"

Zachary Zulock ranting in a February 2021 post on Facebook about foster children
turning to prostitution

Zachary also criticized conservative speaker Cissie Graham Lynch's speech during the
2020 Republican National Convention, where evangelist Rev. Billy Graham's
granddaughter fought to protect the religious freedoms of Christian-run
organizations.

"I'm not sure if the adoption agency that William and I used would have stopped us
because we are gay, for the longest time, that never even crossed my mind [...] If we
had not been allowed to adopt [the boys], that's taking 'our rights away.' What about
all the LGBTQ couples out there that have been stopped from adopting?! What about
their rights?" Zachary wrote in a Facebook post.

Zachary Zulock ranting in an August 2020 post on Facebook about the "rights" of
LGBTQ couples to adopt children

Stay tuned for Part 4, to be released on Friday, January 20, 2023, detailing what
jail is like for two accused child rapists.

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