Because Sydney IS what they so desperatly want to be, but known they never will be, do they attack and deride to make themselves more appealing.
Dead men tell no more lies...
And in the "great State of New Yorkistan" Patricia would have been removed by CPS and her father arrested for child neglect for leaving her home alone as well as for having a firearm unsecured where a child could access it. The father would then also be sued by any surviving family members and lose everything he has. He would die in prison while his daughter is molested by some leftist slimebag she is placed with by the Court.