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Military police have arrested and questioned a Canadian Forces member as part of an investigation into “inappropriate” comments made from government computers about Rehtaeh Parsons.

Police arrested the man on Tuesday in Shearwater, N.S., as part of an investigation into “inappropriate comments made online,” spokesman Maj. Yves Desbiens confirmed Wednesday.

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The man has since been released from custody. Military police say the investigation continues. They refused to make any statement about the identity of the arrested man.

CTV News reported Wednesday that the suspect is the father of one of the men convicted in the Parsons case. The broadcaster did not name the man so as not to identify the son, whose identity is banned under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

In 2011, a photograph of Ms. Parsons, then 15, vomiting at a party while a male teen was having sex with her was shared around her school, resulting in months of torment, her parents say. She hanged herself in 2013.