Little legend Quaden Bayles will lead the Indigenous All Stars out onto CBus Stadium on Saturday night

20 February, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS

Little legend Quaden Bayles will lead the Indigenous All Stars out onto CBus Stadium on Saturday night after a heartwarming invitation from the team on Thursday.

Bayles, just nine years old, had been bullied so badly at his school that a video posted on Facebook by his mother showed him mutter the words, “Give me a knife – I want to kill myself”.

The indigenous all stars have shown their true heart today… gathering round a young boy who was nearly destroyed by bullying. Quaden Bayles has been offered a starring role on Saturday night, after his desperate mother posted a heart wrenching video on social media. #9News pic.twitter.com/XAFtWVKdZP
— 9News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) February 20, 2020

The Facebook video has been viewed by over five million people and shared over 120,000 times and in it Quaden’s mum says: “I’ve just picked my son up from school, witnessed a bullying episode, rang the principal, and I want people to know – parents, educators, teachers – this is the effect that bullying has.”

The NRL was quickly into action with the Indigenous side inviting Quaden to run out with the side.

It’s the type of news week to go home, lock your doors & hug your loved ones. But here is an uplifting story. The @NRL Indigenous All Stars have reached out to bullied 9-yr-old Quaden Bayles, inviting him to lead them out at Saturday night’s match at @CbusStadium @9NewsGoldCoast pic.twitter.com/NdAxuqtIuD
— Dominique Loudon (@DominiqueLoudon) February 20, 2020

Great stuff by the Indigenous All Stars, who learned that 9yo Quaden Bayles has been a bullying victim. He will now lead the team onto the field on the Gold Coast !!! pic.twitter.com/UWqP4Yypt9
— The Mole (@9_Moley) February 20, 2020