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The latest parent-basher is Richard Cowsill, non-singing member of the '60s group The Cowsills.

"My father was a child abuser, physically and sexually," he says of Bud Cowsill, who died in a plane crash several weeks ago.

"My sister had to leave the house at 12 years old because she resisted his advances and he battered her."

Now a Long Island real estate broker, Cowsill, who was a Cowsill roadie, added: "My father used his kids. ... We were a stage production."