Thread by @MiaCathell

In Part 3 of the Zulock horror story, I'm exposing the Christian special-needs adoption agency that the same-sex activist couple used and how Georgia's child-welfare system failed these two boys during the expedited adoption process. We're naming names.

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Prior to the adoption, adoptive dad Zachary was accused of luring a 14yo boy to a house in Walton County, the same jurisdiction as today's horrifying case, and raping the child. But charges weren't filed and the 2011 case "was closed without a whole lot of investigation into it."

Walton County Sheriff's Office told me there were different "investigatory standards" back then when the 2011 child rape case was quickly shut down and the officers who mishandled the investigation have since retired. Detectives are now seeking leads that may still yield charges.

Sheriff's office denied my public records request seeking to see the 2011 police report. "Nothing is releasable at this time" because the case was just recently reopened and could "hinder the active case."

The detective leading the current case has this ironic email signature:

2020: The boys could've been rescued much earlier. Zachary posted about a deputy appearing outside his house. Police parked at the end of his driveway because someone hit his mailbox.

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

Gay newlyweds Zachary, who affectionately calls his husband "My #partnerincrime for life," and William sought to locally adopt children not long after their 2017 wedding. Since they've been together, William has "look[ed] forward to the day" they can "start a family."

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 Georgia, which focused on children in the state who have "waited the longest" to be placed with a family.

Adoption agency All God's Children, Inc. matched adoptive 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."

The brothers allegedly came from a broken home where their biological parents were heroin addicts. "I do think they had every intention, and this is why they adopted them for this purpose," a family member said, believing that the Zulocks "preyed on" the children's vulnerability.

As well as undergoing criminal background checks, the Zulock co-defendants were required pre-adoption to attend classes called "Parents as Tender Healers" (PATH) trauma-informed training 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/placement, and a home study of the Zulocks.

7 months after the boys moved in, Georgia's courts made the "forever family" official in November 2018.

All God's Children was funded through a grant provided by the First Presbyterian Church of Athens. 40% of the parish's Pentecost Offering went to the Christian special-needs adoption agency.

The former member-agency of the Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agencies had "work[ed] in partnership with the Georgia Department of Human Services," which oversees the state's Division of Family & Children Services, "to find families for Georgia's waiting children."

I asked if the 2011 child rape case was ever documented during Zachary's pre-adoption criminal history check. A DHS spokesperson said that DFCS/CPS records are "confidential under state law" and that "we are unable to [...] confirm or deny the existence of related records."

The adoption process moved along "faster than expected," according to the Facebook event page for William and Zachary's 2018 adoption shower. "I actually thought DFCS would be more scrutinizing" but the same-sex couple "passed everything with flying colors," a family member said.