The family of the 22-year-old mentally disabled man abandoned on a bus for 17 hours spoke out yesterday. Edward Rivera, who suffers from cerebral palsy and cannot communicate, was found freezing in the bus, parked in the bus depot, and the bus matron Linda Hockaday was arrested for reckless endangerment. Rivera's mother said, "I was shocked because [Hockaday] was excellent to him...I was in denial at first because she was so good to Edward. He bonded with her, which never happened before...I would like to ask her what happened." more ›