Following multiple sexual assault allegations made against Datsik last week, another music industry professional has been publicly accused of abusing a female who attended Kansas City-based festival Dancefestopia. The festival organizing body, Borda Productions, which also hosts the city’s prominent EDM events, has since severed ties with its talent buyer and production manager, Matt Bonabhan, after someone came forth over Twitter exposing his actions in graphic detail.
In a series of tweets made last Thursday, one user outlined an instance where Bonabhan cornered a woman at a show and forced himself on her. Bonabhan’s accuser also claims that upon reporting his multiple unwanted advances toward several female Borda Productions promoters, the company attempted to cover up his actions in order to protect its name.
Since the allegations came out, other women have come forth to voice their stories of unwanted sexual advances. Evidence has been sent to the authorities, and legal action is being taken against Bonabhan. Read the full thread of tweets here.
[UPDATE 4:30 PST] Dancefestopia has reached out to DA and explained that they had no prior knowledge of the alleged incidents before the series of tweets and notes that there was no attempted cover-up.
We would like to help you collect evidence and help out in any way that we can and exposing this guy. We are a media company that will start it up to be the voice of the people within the music industry after witnessing all the things that we have seen. Let us help you expose him
— The Festival Voice (@TheFestVoice) March 17, 2018
@MattBonabhan has recently been the subject of sexual harassment allegations. We have severed our relationship with Matt and as of today he no longer is with Borda Productions. If you have any information, please contact us at comments@bordaproductions.com
— Dancefestopia (@Dancefestopia) March 17, 2018
Source: dancingastronaut.com
