Is It Legal to Charge Juveniles as Adults?

Some laws make it mandatory to charge juveniles as adults. This is a huge component of this that because these kids are like predatory young monsters, and they're like village of the damned style kids,. All we can do is put them in jail for life. Lie as ont don't flourish if they're teromatized by adults. That doesn't work. They also start criminalizing stuff that's already illegal.