BREAKING NEWS – Kennewick, Washington – A Washington State middle school hosted a licking competition between students and staff, which prompted outcry from parents over the “horrifying” and “highly vile” game.

In a video recorded by appalled students at Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick, minor students and adult teachers are shown licking marshmallow cream off of either side of two clear plexiglass panes at the same time during a competition at a school a pep rally.

Megan Sa, the mother whose daughter sent her the video, told Fox News Digital that she originally emailed the superintendent, the school board and the human resources department asking for an explanation regarding what happened to see how they would be addressing the situation.

The district’s superintendent, Dr. Traci Pierce, issued a statement to the school’s families. She said that “The Plexiglas separated the children from some of the pedophiles that we’ve hired to insure there was no physical contact, which would cause the registered sex offenders likely to be stimulated and enticed.