DENVER - Two parents are facing charges of child abuse after investigators discovered a marijuana grow operation in their home where they lived with three children, ages 7, 9 and 11.

The Denver District Attorney's Office says 29-year-old Joseph Daniel Lightfoot and 29-year-old Amber Brooke Wildenstein are each charged with one count of child abuse.

Investigators say Lightfoot and Wildenstein have been operating the licensed marijuana grow operation in their home on South Williams Street near East Vassar Avenue.

Denver Police went to their home in early June on a report of domestic violence.

Both Lightfoot and Wildenstein are each free on a $50,000 bond. Both are set to appear in court in July to be advised of the charges against them.

They were charged under a state statue that says a person commits child abuse if they knowingly engage in the manufacture or attempted manufacture of a controlled substance in a place where a child is living.

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