Hope no one minds if I put my :twocents: into this. I believe there was a lot of jealousy toward Phylicia. She was beautiful, a class act, smart, great personality, outgoing and a girl with a future. Headed for college.
In spite of everything, I think members of her paternal family resented her for all she was and all they were not. I believe they didn't protect her but allowed her to be harms way out of jealousy and envy. They also might have resented their father bragging about her. jmo
Respectfully, I think it is possible her paternal family was jealous or envious of all Phylicia had going for her. Moreso, I think the Johnson brothers and cousins resented her for having more class and more going on for herself than they did. I think the J family resentment and envy could have escalated due to the fact PB was so close to acheiving the accomplishment of graduating early and having already been accepted to college.
It still amazes me to this day, not one of those J family members has been brought in on drug charges. An arrest of someone facing a good 3-5 or more might help break open PB's case if someone withholding information which would help solve her case was ready to make a deal for themselves. I mean, really. It's no secret that while these J men's social networking and twitter accounts were public they were boasting left and right about their drug use.