Inmate serving life sentence in trafficking case hit with $1 million judgment in suit from one of his victims

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A former Waco auto repair shop owner serving a life prison term plus 20 years in the sexual and physical abuse of at least five women was hit with a $1 million civil judgment Friday in a suit filed by one of his victims.

Visiting Judge Roy Sparkman signed the judgment against Wiliam Ronald Knox, who was convicted in March 2026 of continuous trafficking of a child, three counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault of a child.

The first-degree trafficking count precludes the possibility that Knox, 59, will ever be released on parole.