Maybe the pain will stop today for Kim Ferrell.

The pain is likely just beginning for Lemuel Payne.

Payne is the Upper Darby man who will be in court this morning to be sentenced for the hit-run death of Faith Sinclair. Ferrell is Sinclair’s mother.

It has been nearly a year since Sinclair, a popular Ridley High student, was run down as she tried to cross Chester Pike on a Sunday night last August. The car that struck her did not stop.

Eventually, the car was found. Then police turned their focus on the owner, Lemuel Payne. They knew it was his car, and they were confident it was the car that snuffed out the life of Faith Sinclair.
But they just weren’t sure who was driving. It took a couple of months, but eventually Payne was charged.

He pleaded guilty back in June.

I have no doubt Ferrell will be there, just as she’s been there every step of the way, trying to keep alive the memory of her daughter.

You might call it “Keeing the Faith.”

I hope, in some small way, her pain can end today. I know, of course, it will not. There will always be an emptiness there. That’s what happens when you bury a child.

It’s been Kim Ferrell’s faith that has driven her this past year. And her Faith.