Mother Shares Heartbreaking Video Of Son Saying He Wants To Die For Being Bullied Over His Dwarfism
A new viral video is making its rounds on social media and it’s not sitting well with folks. A mother named Yarraka Bayles from Brisbane, filmed her son Quaden crying in the car after she picked him up from school on Wednesday. The nine-year-old can be heard telling his mother that he wants to “die” due to all the bullying at school over his dwarfism.
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In the heartbreaking footage, which has been viewed more than three million times, Quaden also says: “I just want to stab myself in the heart… I want someone to kill me.” Bayles shared the video publicly on Facebook because she wanted to raise awareness about the impact of bullying, according to The Daily Mail. She also said she normally tries to keep moments such as this private. However, she felt that she had no choice but to go public after seeing how distraught her son was after school. In the process, she also wanted to encourage other people to do better and stop bullying.
“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.
While speaking with the Courier-Mail last year, she shared that her son first tried to kill himself three years ago when he was just six. “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. Despite how hard that was to deal with, Bayles and Quaden managed to push through.
Thousands of people who came across the video have reached out to the family to show their support along with words of encouragement. According to the Daily Mail, The Indigenous All Stars NRL team has also reached out to the family, inviting Quaden to walk them onto the pitch on Saturday. It was said that they will take on New Zealand Maori Kiwis at CBUS Super Stadium on the Gold Coast.
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