ARDMORE, Okla. -- A young man was horribly beaten in an alleged attempt at carrying out vigilante justice in Ardmore. Now days later, he still cannot sit down. Robin Beal reports.

Investigators have uncovered one bizarre twist after another. A 19-year-old man was viciously spanked with a leather-studded belt more than 250 times, and two of the four suspects in custody are identical twin brothers.

Police say Colby and Jeremiah McGinnis, both 18 years old, and the alleged ringleader in the assault, 22-year-old Ronnie Morris, took turns administering lashes to the unidentified victim.

It happened July 23 at a home in the 900 block of west main in Ardmore. Investigators believe Morris was angry at the victim for allegedly forging hot checks in Morris' name. They say the trio of men confronted the victim, taking the law into their own hands, becoming judge and jury, and then giving the victim a choice of punishment ranging from dismemberment, to graphic mutilation, to hundreds of brutal lashes across the backside.

"Out of 19 years in law enforcement, I haven't seen anyone spanked this severely like the victim was. He had severe bruising on his buttock areas," Capt. Kevin Woods of the Ardmore Police Department says.

A woman, 29-year-old Rolanda Braxton, was also arrested in the case. She is accused of hitting the victim in the head with a pipe prior to that brutal spanking. It is not clear how direct a role she may have played in that incident.

All four suspects are now in the Carter County Jail facing felony assault charges.