A New Yorker police say is the man filmed attacking an 11 year-old girl in a dog park used to work for a non-profit that helps traumatized children.
Nathaniel DiRenzo's former position as a volunteer board member for the Lineage Project was revealed by DailyMail.com hours after he was charged with strangulation, assault and harassment and perp-walked by cops.
Co-executive director Gabrielle Prisco said: 'Nathaniel DiRenzo was never an employee of the Lineage Project. He did serve as an uncompensated, volunteer board member. Mr. DiRenzo is no longer on our Board of Directors.'
She has not commented on whether he was axed from his role at the Lineage Project as a result of the shocking assault clip.
The project's website describes its role in teaching 'trauma-sensitive mindfulness to young people, ages 12 to 24, who are navigating system-involvement and other serious challenges, to support them in cultivating well-being, community bonds, and inner/collective resilience.'
Nathanial DiRenzo's biography on the Lineage Project website is pictured. It has since been removed, and he no longer works as a volunteer director for the non-profit
It adds: 'We center young people, who are impacted by a range of traumatized/traumatizing systems—including the criminal-legal, foster care, shelter, school suspension, residential psychiatric care, and immigration systems.'
An archived page from the site's website says of its former volunteer DiRenzo: 'Nate joins us from Google where he is part of the Cloud team. A New Jersey native, Nate attended NYU for undergrad and worked for the U.S. Congress and POLITICO before returning to the city. He is the proud owner of a mini goldendoodle named Auggie, an avid runner, and unrepentant foodie.'
DiRenzo, of Saint Marks Place in the East Village, was charged on October 23 with second-degree strangulation, two counts of assault, second-degree harassment and two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child for the October 20 incident.
He was seen being perp-walked from a police station in Lower Manhattan Saturday night, and wore a gray suit and black mask as he faced the cameras.
DiRenzo graduated from New York University, according to his bio on the non-profit's website, and worked with the U.S. Congress and Politico before he returning to the city.
His dog, who he was presumably taking to the dog park for exercise before he attacked the schoolchildren, is a mini Goldendoodle named Auggie.
On Saturday, DiRenzo was photographed by DailyMail.com as he was escorted out of Manhattan's 13th precinct after his arrest and subsequent release on $7,500 bail.
On Saturday, DiRenzo was photographed as he was escorted out of Manhattan's 13th precinct following his arrest and subsequent release on $7,500 bail
!['Nathaniel DiRenzo... serve[d] as an uncompensated, volunteer board member [and is] no longer on our Board of Directors,' Gabrielle Prisco, the Co-Executive director of the program, told DailyMail.com. It is unclear whether he was removed from the board due to video circulated from the incident on October 20](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/24/17/49575105-10125569-image-a-23_1635091303152.jpg)
'Nathaniel DiRenzo... serve[d] as an uncompensated, volunteer board member [and is] no longer on our Board of Directors,' Gabrielle Prisco, the Co-Executive director of the program, told DailyMail.com. It is unclear whether he was removed from
