Australia rallies behind Quaden: boy, 9, who is bullied over his dwarfism

Devastated Australians and sports stars have sent messages of support to a nine-year-old boy who begged his mum for a rope to kill himself after he was bullied at school over his dwarfism.

Yarraka Bayles, from Brisbane, filmed her son Quaden crying in the car after she picked him up from school on Wednesday.

The schoolboy, who has the most common type of dwarfism called achondroplasia, told his mother: 'Give me a rope, I want to kill myself.'

'I just want to stab myself in the heart... I want someone to kill me.'

Since sharing the video, Ms Bayles has been inundated with kind messages of support from strangers, including fellow children looking to be Quaden's long-term pen pal.

The Indigenous All Stars NRL team were the latest to reach out to the family, inviting Quaden to walk them onto the pitch on Saturday.
Father-of-two Jarrod Urquhart told Daily Mail Australia the 'terrible' video made him want to help Quaden and his family.

'I've watched [the video] and thought: ''How can I help?'',' he said.

'Breaks my heart to see him so upset.'

Mr Urquhart suggested his sons, eight-year-old Cooper and two-year-old Carter, could become pen pals with Quaden.

'They're happy, go lucky kids. They love sport, they love people a lot,' Mr Urquhart explained.

'If they could help this kid somehow, so he doesn't harm himself, feel alone.'
Mr Urquhart said getting a letter in the mail once a fortnight from his friends in Sydney could be one way to help Quaden.

'[It's] something to look forward to,' he said.

'It could be cool. If he had a rough day, his mate in Sydney wrote him a letter.

'We could go up there and meet him somewhere. As long as it's helping the kid's life and helping him be happy.'

Mr Urquhart hopes Yarraka and Quaden see his suggestion and that the two families can be put in contact with each other.
Quaden was snapped with NRL star Latrell Mitchell, who donned a South Sydney Rabbitohs jersey after signing with the club for the 2020 season.

Mitchell is teammates with Quaden's uncle James Roberts, who is also in the Indigenous All Stars team.


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