Hindley's mother had agreed to her father's insistence that she be baptised a Catholic only on the condition that she was not sent to a Catholic school, as her mother believed that "all the monks taught was the catechism".
Hindley mor havde givet efter for hende fars insisteren på, at hun skulle døbes katolsk, på betingelse af, at hun ikke blev sendt til en katolsk skole, som hendes mor mente, at "alt munkene lærter fra sig var katekismus".