Jealous ex-wife allegedly spied on former husband, new family inside home for over 700 hours by tapping into Ring cameras: report
Yantzy Villefranche and his fiancée, Acacia Young, accused Villefranche's ex-wife of spying on them through the indoor Ring cameras they set up because one of their children began sleepwalking, according to court records and NBC San Diego.
'There's no way to describe how violated you feel,' Young told the outlet. 'It feels like someone touched me. It feels like I found somebody in my house, physically in my house. Like she had been in my house for months, and we had no idea.'
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4 Acacia Young speaks out after allegedly finding out her fiancé's ex-wife had been spying on her family inside their home.
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The cameras were set up inside the mixed family's home in the San Diego neighborhood of Rancho Peñasquitos.
Young became skeptical of the newly installed technology in May when she noticed the camera's blue light, indicating recording and live view mode being on when she says it shouldn't have been.
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'I just started to feel kinda crazy,' Young said. 'Like what the hell is going on?'
Young claims it didn't take long for her suspicions to be confirmed.
The family was sitting together in the living room when a female's voice came over one of the camera's speakers.
'It was his ex-wife's voice — it was her voice,' Young told NBC San Diego. 'And I looked up and the blue light was on and the camera was rolling.'
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4 Young recorded on one of the cameras inside her San Diego home on May 14, 2025.
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Young pulled down the cameras and the couple soon discovered Villefranche's ex-wife's name was attached to their Ring account.
The Ring cameras were connected to several Amazon devices that listed the ex-wife's name and the couple didn't own, according to NBC San Diego.
Villefranche had owned the cameras when he was still married to his ex-wife and she had access to the cameras at the time.
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He had believed he had removed her from the devices during their divorce.
4 Yantzy Villefranche and Acacia Young recorded on the Ring Camera inside their home.
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Villefranche sent a cease-and-desist letter to his ex-wife along with a restraining order aimed at protecting him, Young and their three children.
The ex-wife had allegedly recorded hundreds of clips, including some featuring Young breastfeeding the couple's newborn, videos featuring partially undressed and nude children and Villefranche's 10-year-old stepson in 'vulnerable settings,' according to the restraining order viewed by the local outlet.
'Ring device logs show that she accessed my account … and viewed video footage for approximately 44,640 minutes … over the span of two months,' Villefranche wrote in a restraining order filed in May.
Young accused the woman of recording up to 12 hours of footage a day for several weeks.
She says she recognized Villefranche's ex-wife's voice in at least 13 clips recorded and saved to the account.
4 Young and her newborn inside their home after allegedly being spied on.
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Some of the moments the ex-wife allegedly eavesdropped on were private, sensitive conversations the couple had discussing finances, Social Security numbers and bank account information, the outlet reported.
'She watched the most intimate things,' Young said. 'You don't want your fiancé's ex-wife watching these moments, like us living our lives together.
'It doesn't matter if you're breaking in behind a screen. You broke into our home,' she added.
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Two restraining orders filed against the ex-wife have been dismissed in court, according to court records viewed by The Post.
San Diego Police investigated the claims made by Young and Villefranche, transferring the case to the San Diego District Attorney's Office.
Police recommended several charges that the ex-wife could face including eavesdropping, wiretapping and stalking, the outlet reported.
Criminal charges have not been filed as of Wednesday night.
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