“Everything that we found was the rape and torture of children,” Lagrange Police Department Detective Christopher Pritchett said at the time.

According to Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney John H. Cranford, Mallory was released on parole on May 27.

Cranford said his office opposed the decision but were “powerless to stop it” as he had served his statutory eligibility time to apply, which is determined by Georgia laws for consecutive sentences.