'Please make it stop': Father outraged Sylvania bakery wants to give free food after poisoning son

Damian Sullivan is one father who doesn’t believe the Sylvania bakery, who gave 150 people food poisoning, deserves to be re-opened.

His 11-year-old boy, Cooper, has been in hospital for the past six days after complaining about “ stomach cramps” after eating from the Box Village Bakery in Sylvania.

According to the NSW Department of Health, almost 150 people admitted themselves to The Sutherland Hospital and seven have turned up at The St George Hospital with severe food poisoning.

Mr Sullivan and his wife have been working around the clock to be by their son’s side, watching doctors stick needles in their sick boy.

The father-of-two says it is “dreadful” to watch his son lay there, begging for the doctors to stop pulling needles in and out of his tiny body, trying to draw blood.

“It takes three doctors to find the veins in my boy’s arm because he is so dehydrated,” Mr Sullivan told Yahoo7.

“He (Cooper) is in tears the whole time asking for the pain to stop saying ‘Dad please make it stop it, please.’.”

“He has tubes hanging out of him everywhere.”

In a video that brought tears to his father’s eyes, Cooper can be seen crying in pain as he lay on a hospital only two days into his sickness.

“I don't feel too well, I've got stitches and cramps, bad pain,” the young boy can be heard telling his mother while tubes stuck out of his body.

Mr Sullivan told Yahoo7 that he has another daughter who began vomiting four days ago and will need to also be taken to hospital.

Not only is he horrified over the state his two children are in, he is outraged over the bakery’s excuse for a “sorry letter”.

Mr Sullivan told Yahoo7 that he went to the bakery a few days after his son became sick to find this note: “Dear Customer We are Realy (sic) Sorry about what happen We hope every one get well soon We are sorry again.”

'I'm just really p***ed off with them (Box Village Bakery),” Mr Sullivan told Yahoo7 adding that he doesn’t think they care.

“It looks like they were sitting in the toilet when they wrote the note using a black marker and scrap bit of paper.”

“It looks like they don’t care.”

Bakery owner Hien Dau told ‘’The Daily Telegraph’’ he is sorry for what happened and wanted to give out free food for a couple of days once he is able to re-open.

“I feel really bad. I feel sick for people in hospital,” Mr Dau said.

The owner, also known as “Johnny” said it won’t happen again and claims he has learnt from his mistake.

“If it happens again - finish, no more business,” he said.

After Mr Sullivan and his son heard the bakery would be giving out free food, the were both shocked and don’t think the small business should be allowed to do this.

“My son was shocked when he saw someone on the news saying the shop should be given a second chance.”

“It’s ridiculous that they are giving out free food,” he said. “Other people might get sick."

Mr Sullivan claims salmonella affects children worse than it does adults and the shop owner and other members don't understand this until you see a child in the state his is in.

“No one sees what happens to little kids when they are sick like this,” he said.

Mr Sullivan said he is also “p****d off” from the lack of response he received from the New South Wales Food Authority, who have since shut down the bakery to investigate the incident.

“I left messages for three days because the hospital advised me to,” he said.

When he finally got through the phone, Mr Sullivan said he was asked some basic details about his son and was told he would be emailed a survey, which he never received.

Salmonella is a form of gastroenteritis and symptoms can include fever, headache, abdominal pains, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

It usually starts six to 72 hours after eating the contaminated food and on average, only lasts for a few days.