Oceanside

A 47-year-old woman who tried to give her daughter a homemade abortion by using a household disinfectant was ordered Friday to perform 180 hours of volunteer work.

Ida Franks of Oceanside was placed on five years’ probation for involuntary manslaughter in the death of one of her daughter’s twin babies, which were born Dec. 30, 1987.

No jail time was given Franks, who could have been sentenced to a year in the plea-bargain agreement.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Andrew Wagner commented that he found the facts of the case “appalling.”

Wagner fined Franks $500 and ordered her to participate in an Alcoholics Anonymous program after she relocates to Dayton, Ohio.

Franks’ daughter, Vickie Judkins, 24, also of Oceanside, testified against her mother at a preliminary hearing April 24 that Franks inserted a Lysol-soaked straw into her vagina several days before she gave birth to the twins.

Judkins said one baby was born dead, the other alive. She said she went to the bathroom after the births, then discovered that the second baby was also dead and that her mother was wrapping the bodies in newspaper.

Judkins pleaded guilty to child endangerment March 21. She also was placed on five years’ probation June 1 and ordered to perform 160 hours of work in an Oceanside soup kitchen.

The bodies of the babies, which the women said they left in trash bins on Interstate 5, were never found.

Judkins’ husband, Willie Judkins, was a Marine at Camp Pendleton at the time. He was not charged.