just a bit of information on how the child protective services works here in the USA...

Each State has their own standards of what is and isnt considered to be abuse. many states now do consider things like practicing withcraft/black magic and taking an underaged child to gay pride week festivals\events. these laws are due to the fact that many witchcraft\black magic sects perform rituals that may be mentally or physically harmful for children to witness

gay pride parades and other gay pride festival events are in the law books now for child abuse in some states because its known for riot situations where a child can be emotionally and physically harmed. in short a persons sexual life is not for a child and many gay pride events have sexually charged \sexually based topics like the vagina monologues, floats and other parade items that depict sex, sexualized items and such. example here in NY one of the last parade floats included blow up dolls, vibrators and a semi borderline porn video of two women in bed engaging in sexual activity, one of the speakers\events here in NY during one gay pride week was an open stage with a local comedian re enacting the vagina monologues (for anyone that does not know what this is you can google it on youtube.)

child protective services gets a call of possible abuse/neglect of a child. they assign the call to a caseworker who when ever possible goes to the childs school and talks with the child with out the parents knowledge so that the child is not influenced by the parents on what to say, then the caseworker goes and interviews the parents. if the childs story and parents story conflicts they for the childs safely remove the child so that more indept investigation can be done. childrens services has a certain amount of time to complete their investigation and meet with the parents to discuss any problem areas that were found. if problem areas were found the child is not returned. a plan is set up with the parents and the courts on what the parents must do with in a certain time limit. if every thing is done with in the time limit that the state allows for the child to remain in care and still able to reunite the child with their parents, there is a reuniting plan to work. once the reuniting plan is complete the child is returned to parent. if at any point the parents in question have not completed the courts mandates with in the time allowed or there is more to be done and the states time limit for how long that child can remain in care with the possibility of being returned runs out the permanency plan begins where the child is placed out of the reach of the parent the case is about while the courts decide on final \permanent custody or termination of parental rights and the child adopted out of the parents home.

now rereading the posts in this thread Im guessing this case is in the permanency planning phase. by the posters own post they stated the child was removed due to accusations of mental illness, practicing witchraft\black magic and taking a child to gay pride events. then they were told things that needed to be done on their end which means to me that some part of the allegations were proven, then the child was moved to another state where they could not see the child. now there is a custody hearing of whether the father or mother will be getting custody.

my opinion if this poster was here in my location it sounds to me that dhs is doing its job of protecting the child and making sure the parents homes are the right way it should be for the child to either come home to the mother or permanently reside with the father.

my suggestion to the original poster is contact DHS they will tell you why your child was removed from your home and why they wanted you to complete the things they asked you to and why even now when you feel you have completed everything asked of you your child isnt home with you yet, it may just be a formality of needing to finalize in court by way of a custody hearing to return the child to your or the childs fathers custody. they will also tell you who your lawyer is on the case and how to contact that lawyer.