This keeps happening over and over again world wide. Recently we had several similar case of child abuse and death here in the UK. Always the same questions are asked, how could this happen? where was the child protection service? My question is what ever happened to family values.

The world is a strange and cruel place and has been for thousands of years. I think that the mother and the boyfriend should suffer the same, till the point of death, then brought back, then starved again and again.....till someone gets bored with the idea. I will volunteer for the job, for free.

I think that the mother and the boyfriend should suffer the same and die.

It's so sad and beyond belief that anyone could do this to a little boy. The sad thing is that it seems always that it will happen no matter what. A very, very sad refelection on what some people are capable of, all that we can try, through family and community values is to limit its occurence. No child, indeed anyone, should not have to go through this, it is heartbreaking to hear and think about.

It is ashame that a child of this age will never see his future, to have fun as a kid going into puberty to a troubled 15 year old boy learning his destiny. having a girlfriend. most of all....enjoying his adult years. I give my condolances and a prayer to the family and friends whom are affected. SCOTTY DELANEY A FRIEND OF MY RUSSIAN COUNTERPART.

Have to repeat my message ,the first one dissappeared into space,An eye for an eye,starve them as punishment.ps in our uneducated england it is quite normal practice,we are worried about the criminals .i come to the conclusion in england our authorities have been educated how to look after the criminals rights first,the victims are a secondary thought.

These freaks must've really hated their son! That's no excuse to starve a child to death, much less abuse it! I'm sorry that Vlad had $@&%^$!$ for parents and I wish I was his mommy.

i think some one should suffer the mother and her boyfriend the same way they did the little boy they go to hell and not to be mean but i hope some one murder them

SEVEN YEARS!! Life or death? Death for both. These two no longer have a conscious or a soul.

7 years!!!!!! they should be tied to a bed for seven years and tortured. hope they get it bad in jail.

Up to 7 years? is that what people get for murdering their own child? if you don't like your child or want to care for him/her...then please give them to someone who will care for them. life in prison or death is what they should get.

Family values, yes and also reflection - deep contemplation about this in every possible idea or way imaginable in the process of understanding. Why in the year 2010, is the human being such as the "boyfriend" so vulnerable to being a monster, inhuman? I remember watching Citizen X, and it was about Russia. Was it true? What is a manufactured truth? And, how is truth real? When do the people of earth come to the conclusion that the world-wide happening over and over again, is happening and problems must be solved. Time to stop the procrastination in the name of "money." Trusting any leadership on planet earth, in this cycle of farmed, being harvested, culled, down-sized and whatever other words describe this pattern of cannibalism, is not exactly higher intelligence. It is simply a shame there are not more commodities of compassion and other family values, or good virtues, vibrations, energy and energies, sold, since these are all self-governing qualities which must prevail. Monsters, inhuman criminally insane beasts are what they are. Eternity in its recycling of flesh is true. Also, the 21st Century marks the point of change.