According to a report by Punch, the young girl was exposed after she was discovered to have had boils in her private part.

She was reportedly taken to a gynaecologist, who found out what the young girl had been doing upon questioning.

The girl further divulged that she has taught all her friends in school the act and had once been expelled from a school for this act.

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The five year old orphan also disclosed that the domestic help in the house had taught her to use a nail to masturbate without the knowledge of her grandmother, who she lives with.