Ex-Wife Spies on Former Husband With Smart Camera

Acacia Young and her fiancé, Antzy Villefranche, installed Ring cameras in their home to keep an eye on one of their children, who was sleepwalking. But while they thought the device was keeping their family safe, they soon found out the opposite was true when they discovered someone was using the device to spy on them.

Young told NBC News San Diego she began to get suspicious when she saw the camera recording at times when it was supposed to be disabled. But her antenna really went up when she heard a familiar voice coming through the speaker that made her disconnect the device immediately – Villefranche’s ex-wife.

“It was his ex-wife’s voice — it was her voice,” she said. “And I looked up and the blue light was on and the camera was rolling.”

Things got even creepier when the couple discovered strange devices connected to their Ring account, including Amazon Fire Sticks and a Samsung television that were in the ex-wife’s name. NBC News San Diego reported that a restraining order request the couple filed in family court accused the ex-wife of live-streaming over 700 hours of video from inside their home over a period of two months – including some extremely intimate family moments.

“The footage she ‘live viewed’ and recorded includes deeply personal and private moments, such as my fiancee breastfeeding our newborn, nudity and partially undressed footage of our children, including my 10-year-old stepson, in vulnerable settings…. [She] also accessed and recorded confidential household conversations, including private discussions between my fiancee 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,” the document read.

Although Amazon removed Villefranche’s ex from their family account, Young says she’s still haunted by the idea of her fiancé’s ex watching her family.

“There’s no way to describe how violated you feel,” Young said. “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,” she told NBC News San Diego.