Boy, 9, bullied over his dwarfism by classmates begs his mother for rope to kill himself in heartbreaking video
A devastated mother took to social media to share a disturbing video of her nine-year-old son begging for a rope to kill himself after being regularly bullied at school over his dwarfism.
Brisbane resident Yarraka Bayles picked up her son Quaden from school on Wednesday and filmed him crying in the car before sharing the video on Facebook, 7news reports.
"Give me a rope, I want to kill myself," Quaden — who has achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism — is heard telling his mother. "I just want to stab myself in the heart... I want some-one to kill me," the embattled nine-year-old says in the video, which has over six million views already.
Bayles was flooded with kind messages of support after sharing the video. The latest to reach out to the family was the Indigenous All Stars NRL team, who invited Quaden to walk them onto the pitch on Saturday as they take on New Zealand Maori Kiwis at CBUS Super Stadium on the Gold Coast.
Bayles shared her son's breakdown publicly in a bid to raise awareness about bullying. She said she usually kept distressing moments private but was left with no choice but to go public this time as she'd had enough.
"We try to be as strong as positive as possible and only share the highlights... but this is how bullying affects a nine-year-old kid," she said in the video.
"I just picked my son up from school, witnessed a bullying episode, rang the principal and I want people to know this is the effect bullying has," Bayles said that the start of the five-minute clip. "This is what bullying does."
"So can you please educate your children, your families, your friends because all it takes is one more instance... and you wonder why kids are killing themselves," she continued. "This is the impact bullying has a nine-year-old kid who just wants to go to school, get an education and have fun but every single fricking day something happens."
"Another episode another bullying, another taunt, another name-calling," she added. Bayles sought help from anyone viewing the footage as her son sobbed in the background.
"So is there any advice or support or anything that other parents have done?" the devastated mother asked. "I've got some good advice but I need more, I want people to know how much it is hurting us as a family," she insisted.
While Bayles did not go into detail about the latest bullying episode, she previously said her son was often called a "midget" by his classmates.
Speaking with the Courier-Mail last year, she said Quaden first tried to end his life three years ago. He was only six at the time.
"I was so shocked," she said. "I honestly didn't think he would even know what or how at six years old."
Quaden has allegedly made several attempts to commit suicide. "I've explained to him that once you go, there's no coming back, you're gone forever, but he still kept trying," the mother said.
Bayles also added how Quaden was gravely affected by the death of his grandfather and his younger half-brother, who was stillborn.
"He thought if he went to heaven, then he'd be with his Pop and his little brother," she grimaced.
Nonetheless, Bayles is proud she was able to get her anti-bullying message out to the public.