Cat In A Fox Trap

Andrew and Alison White's cat Scooter went missing and, a few days later the couple feared the worst. At 1am on march 4, their neighbours knocked on their door with bad and good news, they found Scooter but he was terribly injured.
But where the penalties harsh enough for animal cruelty?
Mr White said ' when I opened the door two of our neighbours were looking very worried, one of them had Scooter in their hands. Scooter had an almost severed back right leg, the other neighbour was holding a rusty steel jaw which was a fox trap'.
The two neighbours saw Scooter dragging himself with the rusty fox trap still attached to his leg.
Then Mr and Mrs White took took Scooter to the Mt Waverley Animal Centre, and the next day Scooter had his back right leg amputated.
The family was left with a $2600 vet bill, and then Mrs White said, that he was part of the family and they would never considered putting him down.
Mr and Mrs White rang the RSPCA and they reported the matter, but unfortunately they didn't have a name or address of where the fox trap was set, so the RSPCA couldn't do much about it.
The RSPCA see up to 100 cases of animal cruelty each year in Victoria arising from the use of traps.
The offenders face up to 12 whole months in jail and fines of up to $34,600.