A shattered mother has shared a harrowing video of her nine-year-old son begging for a rope to kill himself after he was bullied at school over his dwarfism.
The mother, from Brisbane, filmed her son crying in the car after she picked him up from school on Wednesday and publicly shared the video on Facebook.
The schoolboy, who has the most common type of dwarfism called achondroplasia, told his mother: ‘Give me a rope, I want to kill myself.’
In the distressing video, which has been viewed more than three million times, the boy also said: ‘I just want to stab myself in the heart… I want some-one to kill me.’
The mother, from Brisbane, filmed her son (pictured together) crying in the car after she picked him up from school on Wednesday and publicly shared the video on Facebook
He scratched at his neck and said: ‘I want to die… I want to scratch myself’ as his distraught mother choked back tears.
The mother, who Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to identify, shared the video publicly on Facebook in a bid to raise awareness about the impact of bullying.
She said she normally tries to keep distressing moments such as this private but felt she had been left with no choice but to go public.
‘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.
At the start of the five-minute clip, she said: ‘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. 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.’
‘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.’
As her son sobbed, the mother asked for help from anyone viewing the footage.
‘So is there any advice or support or anything that other parents have done?
‘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 said as her voice quivered.
Since sharing the video, the mother has been inundated with kind messages of support from friends and strangers alike.
The mother did not go into specifics about the latest bullying incident, but previously said her son was called a ‘midget’ by his class mates.
She told the Courier-Mail he first tried to kill himself three years ago when he was just six.
‘I was so shocked. I honestly didn’t think he would even know what or how at six years old,’ she said.
The mother, an Aboriginal rights activist, said her son has made several attempts to take his own life.
‘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.
She also said her son has been 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 said.
She told the newspaper she was proud that she had spoken publicly about asking for help.
The mother, an Aboriginal rights activist, said her son has made several attempts to take his own life