A jealous ex-wife has been accused of digitally ‘breaking into’ a couples home after a family in San Diego discovered they were being watched through their security cameras.
Acacia Young, 35, and her fiancé, Antzy Villefranche, haven’t felt safe in their own home after discovering the cameras inside their home were being used by someone else.
They began to suspect someone was watching them in their home, but it wasn’t until they heard a voice through the camera’s speaker that they accused Villefranche’s ex-wife of live-streaming more than 700 hours of video.
The couple detailed the terrifying behavior in their request for a restraining order against his ex-wife obtained by NBC 7.
‘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.’
Young and Villefranche installed three ring cameras in their home after one of their children started sleepwalking, but Young noticed the camera’s blue light was on at times they shouldn’t have been recording.
‘I just started to feel kinda crazy,’ she said. ‘Like what the hell is going on?’
They began to suspect someone was watching them in their home, but it wasn’t until they heard a voice through the camera’s speaker that they accused Antzy Villefranche’s ex-wife of live-streaming more than 700 hours of video. Pictured: Acacia Young after hearing a voice through one of the Ring cameras in their home
Acacia Young (pictured), 35, and her fiancé, Villefranche, haven’t felt safe in their own home after discovering the cameras inside their home were being used by someone else
‘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 (pictured) wrote in the restraining order filing
It wasn’t until she heard a voice through the camera’s speaker one evening that she felt truly spooked.
‘It was his ex-wife’s voice – it was her voice,’ Young said. ‘And I looked up and the blue light was on and the camera was rolling.’
Young disconnected all three cameras inside the home almost instantly. The pair were left stunned when they checked the camera’s device settings on the Ring account.
Screenshots of the connected devices were included in the couple’s request for a restraining order in May. The devices included two Amazon Fire Sticks, an Amazon Echo Show and a Samsung TV, all under his ex-wife’s name.
The couple told the outlet that they don’t own any Amazon smart devices and Villefranche sent his ex-wife a cease and desist letter, NBC reported.
Not long after serving the letter, Villefranche said he received emails that his ex-wife was no longer part of their Amazon Family account.
The couple then discovered hundreds of saved clips they didn’t create from their cameras, 13 of which, they claimed, included the voice of Villefranche’s ex-wife.
According to the court filing, the couple estimated that the footage had been live streamed for about 12 hours a day over several weeks.
The filing said the accessed footage contained ‘deeply personal and private moments’ including Young breastfeeding their newborn as well as partially undressed footage of their children, ‘including my 10-year-old stepson, in vulnerable settings’
‘She watched the most intimate things,’ Young told the outlet. ‘You don’t want your fiancé’s ex-wife watching these moments, like us living our lives together’
‘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 the restraining order filing.
The filing said the accessed footage contained ‘deeply personal and private moments’ including Young breastfeeding their newborn as well as partially undressed footage of their children, ‘including [Villefranche’s] 10-year-old stepson, in vulnerable settings.’
‘[She] also accessed and recorded confidential household conversations, including private discussions between my fiancée and me regarding our finances, credit card numbers, banking details, Social Security information, medical records, medical health history, and other protected health and potential identity theft,’ Villefranche continued.
The couple said they still aren’t sure how their camera system was infiltrated as Villefranche had removed his ex-wife’s access from when they had been married.
‘She watched the most intimate things,’ Young told the outlet. ‘You don’t want your fiancé’s ex-wife watching these moments, like us living our lives together.’
Currently, there have been no criminal charges against Villefranche’s ex-wife, but the San Diego Police Department has been investigating and transferred the case to the district attorney’s office for potential prosecution last month, NBC 7 reported.
‘It doesn’t matter if you’re breaking in behind a screen,’ Young added. ‘You broke into our home.’
His ex-wife could face charges such as eavesdropping, wiretapping and stalking if the case is recommended for prosecution.
DailyMail.com reached out to the San Diego Police Department and Villefranche’s ex-wife for comment and did not receive an immediate response.
