A 22-year-old man with cerebral palsy who was missing since Wednesday afternoon has been found alive. He spent the entire night locked on a bus in freezing temperatures.

Edwin Rivera was taken to Brookdale Hospital today and is in stable condition.

Edwin, who didn’t return home after participating in a special needs program, was found by his father and an emergency medical service team in a Brownsvile bus yard.

He was still on the bus that was supposed to bring him home. Instead he spent the night in sub-zero temperatures.

“I’m so relieved and I’m so mad at the bus company for leaving him. He’s not a kid. He’s almost 6’2″ how do you miss him?” Leslie Rivera, Edwin’s mother, said.

After the family got over their initial excitment, calls had to be placed to police and others to tell them the search was over.

Brooklyn police searched the bus company lot Wednesday night and didn’t find him. Today, Rivera’s father went to the lot, along with Manhattan police officers and found him, 19 hours after he disappeared.

Police will question the bus driver and the matron Wednesday afternoon. Criminal charges could be filed.

(Source: WCBSTV)