( CNN ) -- The sole survivor of a 2007 Connecticut home invasion has remarried , his father said Tuesday . Dr. William Petit Jr. and photographer Christine Paluf were married Sunday , Petit 's father told CNN in a telephone interview . They met while she was volunteering for the Petit Family Foundation , he said . The couple became engaged shortly after Christmas , family friend Ann Baldwin told CNN in January . The foundation was established after Petit 's first wife and their two daughters were killed in the family 's home in Cheshire , Connecticut . To honor their memories , the foundation funds programs for education and for those affected by chronic illness and violence , according to its website . In the 2007 incident , two men entered the Petit home , beat and tied up William Petit and forced Jennifer Hawke-Petit to go to a bank and withdraw $ 15,000 . The men then raped and strangled Hawke-Petit , 48 , and molested 11-year-old Michaela before tying her and 17-year-old Hayley to their beds and setting the house afire . The girls died from smoke inhalation but their father managed to escape from the basement . Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes , who had met at a halfway house , were tried and have been sentenced to death . Death sentence in Connecticut home invasion . Home invasion victim 's lengthy ordeal .
William Petit married Christine Paluf Sunday , Petit 's father says . The couple met through the Petit Family Foundation . Petit 's first wife and daughters were killed in a home invasion in 2007 . Score: 6