A defrocked American priest yesterday was jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing children at an East Timor shelter, in a case that caused sharp divisions in the deeply Catholic nation. At least 15 women had accused Richard Daschbach, 84, of sexually abusing them when they were children at his shelter in the enclave of Oecusse, with fears that there might be many more victims. A panel of judges found the former priest guilty of several sex crimes at the shelter, which was founded in the early 1990s, and housed hundreds of orphans and impoverished children. They handed down several sentences totaling 37