Scorned ex-wife admits spying on divorced husband and his fiancé by tapping into the feed of surveillance cameras throughout their San Diego home

Rayna Bell prosecutors said, accessed her ex-husband’s Ring cameras and live-streamed hundreds of hours from inside the home of Yantzy Villefranche and his fiancée, Acacia Young

Bell, 35, of San Diego, pled guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of eavesdropping using an electronic device, remotely accessing cameras inside the home

Guilty plea came after prosecutors originally charged Bell with three felony counts tied to the alleged spying

She was sentenced to one day in custody, with credit for time already served, one year of probation and restitution to the victims in an amount to be determined later

Acacia Young realized she was being spied on in her own home when she heard her fiancé’s ex wife Rayna Bell, over the Ring security system in their home

A San Diego woman has admitted using her ex-husband’s Ring security cameras to secretly spy on him and his fiancée inside their own home.
Rayna Bell, 35, pled guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of eavesdropping using an electronic device after prosecutors accused her of remotely accessing cameras inside the Rancho Peñasquitos home of her ex-husband, Yantzy Villefranche, and his fiancée, Acacia Young.
The guilty plea came after prosecutors originally charged Bell with three felony counts tied to the alleged spying. Subsequently,
Bell was sentenced to one day in custody, with credit for time already served, one year of probation and restitution to the victims in an amount to be determined later.
The defendant allegedly livestreamed more than 700 hours of footage of activities inside the home, capturing private medical and financial conversations as well as family members while they were undressed.

Rayna Bell, [photo], admitted to eavesdropping remotely accessing cameras inside the home of Yantzy Villefranche and Acacia Young. She was sentenced to one day in custody, with credit for time already served, one year of probation and restitution

Acacia Young in a civil lawsuit states that Bell and Villefranche divorced in 2023 after nearly eight years of marriage. 
Villefranche later moved in with Young, and the couple installed seven Ring cameras around their home, including two indoors.
Young said she became suspicious after hearing a woman’s voice coming through one of the cameras.
‘It was his ex-wife’s voice,’ she said.
Young said she later reviewed the Ring account and found more than a dozen saved clips containing Bell’s voice. 

Rayna Bell denied the allegations when they first surfaced, which she called a ‘smear campaign’ in court filings, before admitting guilt at trial

The remote spying, recorded private moments of the family inside their own home including images of Villefranche’s fiancée, Acacia Young and her baby, [photo]

The lawsuit also alleged the account logs showed someone accessed one of the cameras for roughly 12 hours a day over a two-month period.
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.
“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.

Young [photo], said the unsettling ordeal became so unsettling that the family moved to a new home and replaced all of their Ring cameras

Bell denied the allegations when they first surfaced, calling them a ‘smear campaign’ in court filings, before ultimately pleading guilty.
Young said Bell’s admission finally brought relief after months of trying to prove what had happened, adding that she is ‘Relieved, absolutely relieved, because we’ve been trying to convince everyone, you know, of the truth and now we no longer have to do that. She admitted it herself.’
Young said the ordeal became so unsettling that the family moved and replaced all of their Ring cameras.
‘We tried so hard to try to restore the peace, the security, the privacy. Once you are robbed of that, it’s almost impossible to try to restore that in your home.
‘You’re always going to feel like they can do it again, or if they had the opportunity, they would do it again,’ Young said.